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Crossing the Gap by Christopher Koch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fascinating insight into a major Australian novelist's development, this collection of pieces employs the memoir as springboard, presenting us with reflections on literature and an analysis of Australia's changing place in the world over the author's lifetime - a lifetime stretching from the British E ...Show more
Highways to a War: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1996 by Christopher Koch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him, which is at the heart of this novel, explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate.
Lost Voices by Christopher Koch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great-uncle Walter-- a wealthy lawyer who lives alone in a Tasmanian farmhouse passed down through t ...Show more
Memory Room by KOCH Christopher
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Vincent Austin analyses his future occupation. Some spies are made, he says, but his kind is born. He is devoted to secrecy for its own sake. His fascination with secrecy and espionage - and much else besides - is shared to an uncanny degree by Erika Lange, daughter of a post-World War German immigrant. ...Show more
Memory Room by Christopher Koch
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'What is a spy? Are they born, or are they made?'With these words, Vincent Austin analyses his future occupation. Some spies are made, he says, but his kind is born. He is devoted to secrecy for its own sake. Vincent is orphaned early, and his boyhood in Tasmania is spent with an elderly aunt. His fasci ...Show more
The Many-Coloured Land by Christopher Koch
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend, the folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is returning to a country where he spent much of his adult life, while Koch's two great-grandmothers came from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land: one, a conv ...Show more
The Many-Coloured Land: An Irish Memoir by Christopher Koch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend the folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is returning to a country where he spent much of his adult life, while two of Koch's great-grandmothers came from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land: one of th ...Show more
The Memory Room by Christopher Koch
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This novel is essentially a psychological study of a spy, and an exploration of secrecy. It is also a study of the pathological condition known as folie a deux - the madness of two - in which two people share a common set of fantasies and delusions. Thus, although the novel has espionage as one aspect o ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a sh ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into t ...Show more
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