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Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"By a majority, we chose the most controversially difficult and demanding of the four books that were before us, because we detected in it a touch of genius that, we believe, will give it enduring significance" - CHAIRPERSON, COMMONWEALTH PRIZE Already a bestseller in Australia, and now on bestseller li ...Show more
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
NOW AVAILABLE AS A VINTAGE CLASSIC EDITION Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not saf ...Show more
Notes on an Exodus by Richard Flanagan
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Notes on the exodus of refugees from Syria, by Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan. With illustrations from Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty. In January 2016 Richard Flanagan and Ben Quilty travelled to Lebanon, Greece, and Serbia to follow the river that is the exodus of our age: that of refugees ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Seize the Fire: Three Speeches by Richard Flanagan
$12.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country-our country-belongs to its dreamers . . . if we are finally to once more go forward as a people it's time our dreamers were brought in from the cold. Richard F ...Show more
The Australian Disease on the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom: Short Black 1 by Richard Flanagan
$6.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Short Blacks Ser.
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age', James RebanksIn a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's ag ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career.' - Michael Williams, The Guardian A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on ...Show more