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A Near Thing for Captain Najork by Russell Hoban
$24.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Captain Najork
Fooling around as he loves to do, Tom invents a jam-powered frog, and he and his Aunt Bundlejoy Cosysweet take it out for a spin. When Captain Najork sees them hopping past his window, he and his hired sportsmen jump into their pedal-powered snake and set off in hot pursuit - bent on revenge after their ...Show more
Angelica Lost and Found by Russell Hoban
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In Ariosto's epic 16th-century poem "Orlando Furioso", the beautiful Angelica , chained, naked, to a rock and menaced by a sea monster is rescued by the valiant Ruggiero, riding a 'hippogriff'. Volatore, as this hippogriff calls himself, has escaped the poem in which he has been confined for centuries a ...Show more
Angelica Lost and Found by Russell Hoban
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Ariosto's epic sixteenth century poem Orlando Furioso, the beautiful Angelica is rescued by the valiant Ruggiero. He swoops in riding a hippogriff, a fantastical winged creature, the offspring of a griffin and a mare. Volatore, as this hippogriff calls himself, has escaped Ariosto's poem after being ...Show more
Come Dance With Me by Russell Hoban
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she's come to think she's bad luck. Fascinated by Christabel, diabetologist Elias New ...Show more
Fremder by Russell Hoban
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052- in the blackness of space a figure in blue overalls tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be alive, can he? But he is. First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanke ...Show more
Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Russell Hoban's latest eccentric and charming tale of love and art. 'This is it...this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were c ...Show more
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Captain Najork
This is a classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval! Tom loves to fool around. He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys. He fools around so much that his maiden aunt, Miss Fidget Wonkham ...Show more
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen HB by Russell Hoban
$24.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
This is a classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval! Tom loves to fool around. He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys. He fools around so much that his maiden aunt, Miss Fidget Wonkham ...Show more
Jim's Lion by Russell Hoban
$19.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Alexis Deacon, brilliant illustrator of Russell Hoban's final masterpiece, Soonchild, now reimagines Russell's touching story about a boy in hospital, who dreams wild and extraordinary dreams as he faces a life-saving operation. Jim is in hospital. He's frightened. What if the doctors send him somewhere ...Show more
Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'An original ... a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a que ...Show more
Linger Awhile by Russell Hoban
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When eighty-three-year-old Irving Goodman falls in love with actress, Justine Trimble, she's been dead for forty-seven years. Irving may not know how he's going to attain his heart's desire but he knows a man who does. Istvan Fallok, a wizard of high technology, sees her on Irving's TV screen and hi-tec ...Show more