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A History of Silence : A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."--The Guardian "Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer make him a literary figure to w ...Show more
Biografi by Lloyd Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Biografiis an imaginative melding of travelogue and fable that sparked controversy on its release. When Lloyd Jones visited Albania in 1991, six years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, he heard rumours of a village dentist who looked like the dictator and had been forced to give up his identity a ...Show more
City of Lions - Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now by Jozef Wittlin; Philippe Sands; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous artists and intellectuals. My Lwow, Jozef Wittlin's ...Show more
Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days by Witold Szablowski; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'One of the truest and most beautiful things I've read.' Tim Flannery I used to bottle-feed my father's two bears. When my son was born, they were kept together. There were plenty of times when I got it wrong--the baby drank from the bear's bottle, and the bear from his. So when they fired me from the ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers- some generous, some exploiting-to guide he ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from North Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers - some generous, some exploiting - to guide ...Show more
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. This is where Louise and Schmidt's story begins, with a backward step. Intertwining two love stories across three generations, the Booker-shortlisted author of Mister Pip takes us to Buenos Aires, New Zealand and Sydney. ...Show more
Lala by Jacek Dehnel; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lala has lived a dazzling life, filled with love, betrayals, acts of courage and some of the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century. There is nothing she likes better than to tell stories of her fascinating past - of her grandfather, the legendary owner of the first car in Ukraine; of her ar ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007Winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction 2007Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007Winner of the Kiriyama Writers' Prize 2008Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war.Matilda attends the scho ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Matilda lives on an island somewhere in the Pacific-but this is no paradise. Civil war is a fact of life, though at first the village is largely left alone by the soldiers and the rebel fighters. The school is closed but then Mr Watts, the only white man on the island, steps forward to do what he can to ...Show more
Pacific Highways: Griffith Review 43 by Lloyd Jones & Julianne Schultz (eds)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith Review
Migration, demographic changes and new cultural references are reshaping New Zealand. It is fast becoming a hub where Pacific and Tasman currents meet. As a result, New Zealand is changing, in response to surging tides of people and ideas. Pacific Highways explores and maps the new New Zealand, in the w ...Show more
Paint Your Wife by Lloyd Jones
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a novel about looking in the wrong direction. Having their portraits painted during WW2 brought the women of New Egypt a new awareness. Now the artist has returned and begins drawing classes for the whole town. As a result the men start noticing their wives again, the whole community learns how ...Show more