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  • Published: 1 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780857980571
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 45

The Commune Does Not Want You



'Is there a commune for people who do not fit very well into communes?'

'Is there a commune for people who do not fit very well into communes?'

In this story from Tales of Mystery and Romance, and with tongue firmly in cheek, Frank Moorhouse explores the etiquette of seeking to join a commune. A social structure beyond the comprehension of our hero.

With a bonus free chapter from Grand Days, the first novel in Frank Moorhouses much-loved The Edith Trilogy.

  • Published: 1 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780857980571
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 45

About the author

Frank Moorhouse

Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator and in 1970s became a full-time writer. He won national prizes for his fiction, non-fiction, and essays. He was best known for the highly acclaimed Edith trilogy, Grand Days, Dark Palace, and Cold Light, novels which follow the career of an Australian woman in the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s through to the International Atomic Energy Agency in the 1970s as she struggled to become a diplomat. His last book The Drover’s Wifea reading adventure published in October 2017, brings together works inspired by Henry Lawson’s story and examines the attachment Australia has to the story and to Russell Drysdale’s painting of the same name. Frank was awarded a number of fellowships including writer in residence at King’s College Cambridge, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. His work has been translated into several languages. He was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1985 and was made a Doctor of the University by Griffith University in 1997 and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by the University of Sydney, 2015. Frank Moorhouse died, in Sydney, on 26 June 2022.

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