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A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty- year marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. Between her visits to the doctor and the music lessons she gives to bored teenagers, she is trying to rebuild a life. It's not i ...Show more
A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Award-winning writer Caryl Phillips presents a beautiful, heart-breaking novel of the life of Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea In the heart of London's Bloomsbury, Gwendolen - not yet truly famous as the writer 'Jean Rhys' - is presented with the opportunity she has been waiting for. Her husband ...Show more
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.' This is how W.C. Fields described Bert Williams, the highest-paid entertainer in America in his heyday and someone who counted the King of England and Buster Keaton among his fans. Born in the Bahamas, he moved to California with his family ...Show more
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and affecting novel based on the tragic life of a hero of American entertainment. 'Bert Williams is the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.' - W. C. Fields Born in the Bahamas in 1874 and brought up there and in Los Angeles Bert Williams was disappointed early in life w ...Show more
Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson ...Show more
In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The streets of modern-day London are hectic, multicultural, and difficult to read if you are a white-collar, middle-aged man. Keith is a social worker who, following a brief affair with a colleague, finds himself living alone in a flat a few streets away from his wife, Annabelle, and his teenage son. Hi ...Show more
The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips, a heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the pastIt is the 1960s. Isolated from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, Monica Johnson raises her sons in the shadow of the wild Yorkshire moors. But when her younger son Tommy, a lon ...Show more
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