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A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Black Mirror by Gail Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Victoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working in Paris, mixing with the artists of the Surrealist movement. Her work was largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties, but was rediscovered in the seventies, when she became something of a cult figure on the London ar ...Show more
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation. There had to be in the world of mechanical efficiency some mystery of transaction, the summoning of remote meanings, an extra ...Show more
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
$23.95 AUD
Category: 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Each of the four is haunted by memories of the past: Ellie is preoccupied by her experiences as a girl, James by a tragedy for which he feels responsible, Catherine by the los ...Show more
Five Bells by Gail Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: 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: 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: 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: 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new, smaller format for this sweeping intergenerational novel from 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award winner Gail Jones.Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history ...Show more
Our Shadows by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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