Browse by category
Tales of Freedom by Ben Okri
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
As one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is rightly acclaimed for his use of language. And as a Booker Prize winning novelist, this skill was shown to particular effect in both "Starbook" (his most recent work) and in "The Famished Road". In "Tales of Freedom", he brings both poetry and story togeth ...Show more
The Age of Magic by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.' Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two ni ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Famished Road Trilogy
Winner of The Booker Prize 1991 So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Famished Road Trilogy Ser.
So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is his story. Pre-read / used. Fair condition. some damage (page torn from very front on book), browned edgin ...Show more
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace, and uncommon power."--Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf "The Freedom Artist represents a heady jumble of influence and inspiration, a tapestry of biblica ...Show more
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Man Booker-winning The Famished Road, a young woman is arrested for speaking four simple words - Who is the Prisoner?This question resonates throughout the novel, and by the end it has become the question every reader has to ask themselves. The answer is im ...Show more
The Last Gift of the Master Artists by Ben Okri
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The moment before the world changed and innocence was lost - Ben Okri's breathtaking novel about life in the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slavers restores the full vibrancy of a lost history to his Nigerian homeland. Two lovers meet for the first time. One is the son of a king, s ...Show more
The Last Gift of the Master Artists by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'One of the most beautiful and profound novels I've read in ages' Washington Post 'A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships' Independent 'Takes on the great riddles of existence' New York Times By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promi ...Show more
The Magic Lamp : Dreams of Our Age by Ben Okri; Rosemary Clunie (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A lamp found in the attic of a London house inspires a sequence of images and writings. Meditations or stories, these pieces and pictures explore themes including modern times, lost worlds, revolutions, and love.
Wild: Poems by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in each one of us - the freedom of our spirit, the child ...Show more