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Both these titles showcase Goldsworthy's ability to craft rich, character-driven narratives within the realm of General Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor those interested in personal and professional reflections, \u003cem\u003eThe Cancer Finishing School\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique blend of Biography \u0026amp; Memoir, revealing Goldsworthy's perspectives on facing life-altering challenges. Science enthusiasts will appreciate \u003cem\u003eTrue Blue?\u003c\/em\u003e, which delves into intriguing topics within Science \u0026amp; Nature, reflecting his versatility and intellectual curiosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCompleting this collection is \u003cem\u003eWish: Text Classics\u003c\/em\u003e, a reimagined tale blending speculative fiction with profound existential questions within the scope of General Fiction. Goldsworthy's narrative skills continue to shine, offering readers thought-provoking stories that resonate on many levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrowse through our selection of Peter Goldsworthy's works to experience his diverse storytelling, where each book promises a journey of discovery and introspection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-cancer-finishing-school-by-peter-goldsworthy-9781761340772","title":"The Cancer Finishing School","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy first stray thought—cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat lessons might cancer teach him before it finishes him off? Peter Goldsworthy asks, obliquely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA GP of forty years' practice, as well as one of Australia's most awarded and celebrated writers, Goldsworthy ('Doctor Pete' to his patients) brings his characteristic black humour and storytelling power to the tale of his own cancer journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccidentally diagnosed after a scan of his dicky knee, he was thrown into a world that he knew only too well from the other side—a world that soon shrank to hospital visits, sleepless and hyped-up nights on dexamethasone and life-saving chemotherapy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNever one to waste a story, Peter intersperses his own experience with odd and astonishing case stories of patients and literary friends who have trodden the same path—both cautionary tales and exemplary tales, sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes deeply moving, that intersect with, or refract, his own travels through denial, acceptance, treatment and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDarkly funny, and filled with growing love and wonder, \u003cem\u003eThe Cancer Finishing School\u003c\/em\u003e offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46380075778284,"sku":"9781761340772","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2708873482815.jpg?v=1744840268"},{"product_id":"maestro-by-peter-goldsworthy-9780732297350","title":"Maestro","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the \u003cem\u003emaestro\u003c\/em\u003e, a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I enjoyed \u003cem\u003eMaestro\u003c\/em\u003e enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.\" - Helen Garner, \u003cem\u003eSydney Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn release, \u003cem\u003eMaestro\u003c\/em\u003e was hailed as \"a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one has finished it. It is distinguished by subtlety, by economy and by a quality often lacking in even the best of recent novels - an unerring quality of tone\", according to Andrew Riemer in the \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt has sold over 200,000 copies in Australia and was voted by members of the Australian Society of Authors as one of the top 40 Australian Books of All Time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The necessary elusiveness of perfection, the unplumbed ocean beneath articulateness, the ambivalence of beauty - these are the revolving concerns of Peter Goldsworthy, and handled not just with irony, but with an effervescent, compassionate wit. 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Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts. Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was a word, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way of reaching my parents...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJ.J. is back living at home in Adelaide, unemployed and drifting after a messy divorce. Then he is offered a job teaching Sign to Eliza. His new pupil is smart, sensitive, attractive - and a gorilla recently liberated from a medical research laboratory by animal rights activists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1995, the third novel by the acclaimed writer Peter Goldsworthy is unique in Australian literature — a dazzling, moving story about scientific experimentation and ethics, language and love. 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Why is it so hard to put a finger on what makes us unique?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of this new century, waves of immigration and our embrace of a wider world have made Australia a highly cosmopolitan culture. This lively collection from across the continent reminds us of our varied heritage, highlights our common connections and sometimes discerns what Peter Goldsworthy calls 'a national temperament'. It shows us we have much of which to be proud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrue Blue?\u003c\/em\u003e draws together novelists, journalists, poets, cultural icons, historians, commentators, photographers and painters, old voices and new voices, who reflect on the stories we tell about ourselves and the myths we cultivate. By turns funny, ironic, penetrating, provocative and inspiring, \u003cem\u003eTrue Blue?\u003c\/em\u003e is a great companion for a day at the beach—or in the bush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855362117868,"sku":"9781741750591","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781741750591.jpg?v=1759267154"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/peter-goldsworthy.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}