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Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Gerald Samper is a ghost-writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round-the-world voyage has made her the toast of Britain, and who has become the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental gro ...Show more
Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round-the-world voyage has made her the toast of Britain and the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental group. Gerald pines ...Show more
Blackbird : The Story of the Lockheed SR-71 Spy Plane by James Hamilton-Paterson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Just what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? In this book, the author fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - ...Show more
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1945, Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, and intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a f ...Show more
Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nearing the end of his career, Sir Edward Elgar impulsively decides to travel by ship to Brazil, where he encounters a woman from his past. Set in 1923 and based on true events, Gernontius is a modern classic, and takes the great composer out of his depths in this beautiful, episodic, mysterious novel s ...Show more
Loving Monsters by James Hamilton-Paterson
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A chance encounter in a local store leads a writer to undertake to record the life of his neighbour, the enigmatic Raymond Jerningham Jebb; 'Jayjay' to his friends, self-styled impostor and lover. From the terrace of his Tuscan villa Jayjay offers him a biographer's dream: a no-holds barred account of a ...Show more
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public ...Show more
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's ...Show more
Playing With Water: Alone on a Philippine Island by James Hamilton-Paterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
This is a classic of travel writing. For many years award-winning writer James Hamilton-Paterson spent a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he did. Yet it also gives an account of life in that class-bound country ...Show more
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The hero of this black farce of a book is Gerald Samper, a ghostwriter to unbearable sports celebrities and rock stars, whose dream is to write the libretto of an opera.After an unsuccessful sojourn in Suffolk that ends in the accidental death of an ancient aristocrat, Gerry returns to Tuscany to the si ...Show more