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Kretser, Michelle de: The Lost Dog
Book Number: 45794
Allen & Unwin Academic 2007 8vo hardcover 346pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Lost Dog australia india novel Kretser Michelle de
Price: $18.00 |
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Grenville, Kate: The Secret River
Book Number: 45834
Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2005. First edition. 8vo. hardcover. 334pp. Near Fine. / Very good+ d/w with minor curling to edges. Signed by author.
Keywords: australian novel fiction grenville
Price: $125.00 |
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Townsend, Ian: The Devil's Eye
Book Number: 46412
HarperCollins Publishers August 21, 2008 8vo softcover 400pp near fine. A forgotten fragment of Australia's past inspires a powerful new novel. It is the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the most powerful storms in history is born when a hurricane named Mahina moves across the Coral Sea. To a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets and a native policeman trying to solve a murder. Nearly two thousand men, women and children are gathering around Cape Melville, right in the path of the storm that is about to cause Australia's deadliest natural disaster. Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream.
Keywords: fiction read in 2008 The Devil's Eye Townsend Ian
Price: $12.00 |
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Courtenay, Bryce: The night country
Book Number: 46571
Ringwood, Vic. Penguin 1998 first edition Small 8vo hardcover illustrated boards, red cloth spine. 87pp near fine.
Keywords: Courtenay Bryce 1933 Childhood and youth Family Juvenile fiction Witchcraft Juvenile fiction South Africa Juvenile f The night country Courtenay Bryce
Price: $18.00 |
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Benmalek, Anouar: The Child of an Ancient People
Book Number: 47861
Random House UK December 28, 2004 8vo softcover 256pp very good. An Arab man and a French woman are on a ship bound for Australia. With them is an orphan boy who is the last representative of his people, The Tasmanian Aboriginals. The story raises a highly sensitive issue: the extermination of an island race.
Keywords: The Child of an Ancient People Benmalek Anouar
Price: $12.00 |
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Christopher, Koch: The Memory Room
Book Number: 48054
Vintage 2007 8vo softcover 432pp very good. A story based on the mentality and motivations of one who chooses to live the life of a secret intelligence operative.
Keywords: The Memory Room Christopher Koch
Price: $16.00 |
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Myhill, Steve: Men are from Wagga and Women Wish They Weren't
Book Number: 48331
Australia: Lothian Books, 2000 8vo. softcover. 191pp. b/w illus. Very good, light crease on cover.
Keywords: Wagga fiction australian novel humour humorous
Price: $11.00 |
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Flanagan, Richard: Wanting
Book Number: 48395
Knopf Australia 2008 8vo hardcover 261pp. Fine / Fine d/w. It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Aboriginal chieftain. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre of the world, the most famous novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, realises he is about to abandon his wife, risk his name, and forever after be altered because of his inability any longer to control his intense passion. Connecting the two events are the most celebrated explorer of the age, Sir John Franklin - then governor of Van Diemen's Land - and his wife, Lady Jane, who adopt Mathinna, seen as one of the last of a dying race, as an experiment. Lady Jane believes the distance between savagery and civilisation is the learned capacity to control wanting. The experiment fails, Sir John disappears into the blue ice of the Arctic seeking the North-West Passage, and a decade later Lady Jane enlists Dickens' aid to put an end to the scandalous suggestions that Sir John's expedition ended in cannibalism. Dickens becomes ever more entranced in the story of men entombed in ice, recognising in its terrible image his own frozen inner life. He produces and stars in a play inspired by Franklin's fate to give story to his central belief: that discipline and will can conquer desire. And yet the play will bring him to the point where he is finally no longer able to control his own passion and the consequences it brings. Based on historic events, Wanting is a novel about art, love, and the way in which life is finally determined never by reason, but only ever by wanting.
Keywords: Wanting Flanagan Richard
Price: $25.00 |
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Mass, Nuri.: Donna Roon.
Book Number: 48482
Sydney Alpha Books 1970 8vo hardcover 257pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Donna Roon Mass Nuri australian novel fiction
Price: $10.00 |
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Kretser, Michelle de: The Lost Dog
Book Number: 48944
Allen & Unwin Academic 2007 8vo softcover 346pp. very good.
Keywords: Lost Dog australia india novel Kretser Michelle de
Price: $12.00 |
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