Malcolm Knox Boeken

Richard recalls the idyllic summers he spent at the beach with his best friend, Hugh Bowman, and their wives. The more Richard remembers, however, the more he must confront the dark side of his past.

It is two days after his father's death, and Davis Brand is beginning to suspect a cover-up. Dr John Brand was survived by two sons, the death notice said - so why are there three? Peacefully, it said, but there circustances of his death are murky in the extreme. The Test Match is being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground, near the Brand's house, and Davis's brother Chris, a famous cricketer, is batting to save his career. Their mother Margaret watches the match on TV, apparently inert in her armchair, and the unacknowledged brother, the banished Hammett, lurks in the background. Then John Brand's funeral, and the lives of his family, are all put on hold for the duration of the match - five days of suspense, silence, revelation, recrimination and redemption. This is a poignant story of a family's grief, a skilfully constructed thriller and a dissection of men's private passions filtered through two arenas of masculinity - sport and pornography.

Lacno, lacno... Coles a Woolworths spoločne kraľujú v prostredí austrálskeho maloobchodu v železiarskom tovare, v predaji benzínu, zmiešaného tovaru i alkoholu a predovšetkým v potravinách. V priemere každý muž, žena a dieťa v tejto krajine minie 100 dolárov týždenne v ich predajniach. Čo znamená takáto dominancia pre dodávateľov? A je to dobré pre spotrebiteľov? Novinár a spisovateľ Malcolm Knox v knihe Obludné supermarkety vrhá svetlo na austrálske dvojičky-megapredajcov, keď skúma, ako si vybudovali svoju moc na trhu a ako z nej ťažili. Knox odhaľuje neodvratné a často zastrašujúce obchodné praktiky, ktoré obe spoločnosti používajú, aby presadili svoju vôľu. Tvrdí, že kvôli lacnému mlieku a chlebu my spotrebitelia riskujeme oveľa viac: kvalitu, rôznorodosť a ohrozenie vlastných komunít.