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Linger Awhile by Russell Hoban
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A novel about bloodthirsty 1950s movie cowgirls with hallucinogenic toadsucking properties: this is seductive, fine fiction at the cutting edge of mayhem. When Irving Goodman falls in love with Justine Trimble he is close to the end of his life and she's been dead for forty-seven years. Irving doesn' ...Show more
Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer by Russell Hoban
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Serial philanderer Jonathan Fitch is distraught when his girlfriend Serafina leaves him. In a desperate state at Piccadilly Circus underground station, he meets wealthy, mysterious Mr Rinyo-Clacton, and ends up agreeing to a Faustian pact- Mr Rinyo-Clacton will give Jonathan one million pounds, if he ag ...Show more
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi by Russell Hoban
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Phil Ockerman falls hard for Bertha Strunk at a tango lesson in a church crypt in Clerkenwell. 'Is Bertha's trunk anything like Pandora's box?' he wonders. Each recently separated, both their Suns are squared by Neptune. Bertha also bears a strong resemblance to the 17th century Venetian singer and comp ...Show more
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi by Russell Hoban
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Recently separated, Phil Ockerman falls hard for Bertha Strunk at a tango lesson in Clerkenwell. Bertha also bears a strong resemblance to the seventeenth-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi (with whom Phil happens to be obsessed), to the point where Phil is no longer sure which is whic ...Show more
Pilgermann by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a me ...Show more
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ver theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down.
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.'Funny, te ...Show more
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely ...Show more
Rosie's Magic Horse by Russell Hoban
$15.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
This is a story that could have come only from the imagination of Russell Hoban, brought vividly to life by the picture-book supremo Quentin Blake. This story begins with an ice-lolly stick. Its sweetness gone, it lies discarded and lonely...until a little girl called Rosie comes along. She places it ca ...Show more
Soonchild by Russell Hoban
$27.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Reading Level: 12+
Somewhere in the Arctic Circle, Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb. The World Songs are what inspire all newborns to come out into the world, and John must find them for her. But how? The answer takes him through man ...Show more
Soonchild by Russell Hoban
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Somewhere in the Arctic Circle, Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb. The World Songs are what inspire all newborns to come out into the world, and John must find them for her. But how? The answer takes him through many ...Show more
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequ ...Show more