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Charades by Janette Turner Hospital
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Modern Classics
From the subtropical lushness of Queensland's Tamborine Rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Hospital's characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning Scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-held secrets of her ...Show more
Colected Stories by Janette Turner Hospital
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The internationally acclaimed stories from Dislocations and Isobars are presented here with seven previously uncollected stories, four of which were included in the twenty-five "Best Short Stories in English" in their year of publication. Janette Turner Hospital's sensuous prose reveals the inner liv ...Show more
Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Haunted by the memory of the hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager, Lowell has been receiving calls from a stranger obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64, badgering him for information about the flight she was a passenger on as a child. ...Show more
Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Forecast: Turbulence is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece from Janette Turner Hospital. Featuring a compelling and enigmatic cast of characters - a loner obsessed with the beautiful face of a neighbour; a militant religious cult; the mute skippe ...Show more
Janette Turner Hospital Collected Stories (New Edition) by Janette Turner Hospital
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This collection brings together in one distinguished volume a range of stories written over twenty-five years by this internationally acclaimed author. Janette Turner Hospital's sensuous prose reveals the inner lives of a fascinating gallery of characters caught between cultures. Some cross borders of c ...Show more
North of Nowhere, South of Loss by Janette Turner Hospital
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jannette Turner Hospital's short stories have won widespread acclaim for their dazzling style, intellectual depth and crackling energy. Her characters oscillate between estrangement and a sense of belonging, as the author herself has experienced geographical displacement. Seven of these stories are publ ...Show more
Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the ancient myth, it is Orpheus who travels to the underworld to rescue his lover Eurydice from death. In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus story, Leela May travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of her lover, Mishka. Leela is a mathematical genius who escape ...Show more
Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this powerful and achingly beautiful novel, Janette Turner Hospital tackles head-on questions of national security, art, terrorism and love. From the moment Leela's ear catches the first few bars of music in between the roar of subway trains, she's entranced by its haunting beauty. Letting the music ...Show more
Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Outer Maroo, a small, opal mining town in the Australian outback, is stewing in heat, drought, and guilty anxiety. Some ghastly cataclysm has occurred on the opal fields, but this is a taboo subject. At the heart of the mystery is the cult messiah, Oyster, dressed in white, sexually compelling, and prea ...Show more
SALE - Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Lowell tries not to think about the past, about the hijacking that killed his mother. Samantha, on the other hand, cannot let go. As a child she survived the hijacking of Air France 64, and as an adult she obsessively digs for answers, seeking a man called Salamander whom she believes holds key informat ...Show more
The Claimant by Janette Turner Hospital
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'So then, here it is. The unadorned un-self-flattering gospel, the never-before-told story our intricately intertwined lives ...Listen: I know things that no one else knows. Trust me. ' Manhattan, 1996: the trial of the Vanderbilt claimant is finally coming to an end. The case - long, complex, riven wit ...Show more
The Ivory Swing by Janette Turner Hospital
$24.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Juliet yearns for the "ebb and flow of life lived avidly", for the pace and challenge of city living. The conflict between her love of husband and children and her own passionate need for expression is intensified by her move from smalltown Canada to Southern India. The stifling restrictions on Julie ...Show more
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