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A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. 'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an Ameri ...Show more
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"A vision of Japan as you have never imagined it. A brilliant and moving novel about displacement and belonging by the award-winning author of Sixty Lightsand Five Bells.She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of televi ...Show more
Five Bells by Gail Jones
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water. But each of the four carries a complicated history from elsewhere; e ...Show more
Five Bells by Gail Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the Kibble Literary Award, Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, The ALS Gold Medal, the Barbara Jefferiss Prize and the Indies Award.On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera Hou ...Show more
Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"A Guide to Berlin" is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in Berlin to share stories and memories. Eac ...Show more
One Another by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Eminent Australian author Gail Jones examines the intersections of art and life via a fictionalised biography of Joseph Conrad in her distinctively immersive and rich prose. At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is di ...Show more
Our Shadows by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Our Shadows is a story about three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Nell and Frances are sisters who are close enough in age to be mistaken for twins. ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction, there are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of these people-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
MACEDONIA, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at the centre ...Show more
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology. Her perception of ...Show more
The Cockatoos: Text Classics by Patrick White; Gail Jones (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White's great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events - a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper, truer r ...Show more
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2019 PM'S FICTION PRIZE The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father''s death. But a scu ...Show more
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