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A Lie About My Father by John Burnside
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick with his hands, he hadn't seen his so ...Show more
Ashland & Vine by John Burnside
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1999. Kate Lambert, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. The woman, Jean Culver, declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer- if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. And if she can stay sober bey ...Show more
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually th ...Show more
Glister by John Burnside
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The children of Homeland exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead, and without evidence the authorities claim they are simply run ...Show more
I Put a Spell on You by John Burnside
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge. This is a memoir of romance - of lost love and the love of being lost - darkened by threat, illuminated by glamour. The old Scots word 'glamour' ...Show more
Something Like Happy by John Burnside
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely, unfaithful, dying - driving empty roads at night. These are people for whom the idea of 'home' has beco ...Show more
The Dumb House - A Chamber Novel by John Burnside
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Persian myth, it is said Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn children, attended by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or acquired. Burnside provides a modern-day repetition of Akbar's investigations.
The Music of Time - Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
$55.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Weste ...Show more
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the noise of time into a kind of music. The Music of Time is a unique history of twentieth-century ...Show more
The Sea, The Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; John Burnside (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAISY JOHNSON 'I s ...Show more
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