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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
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: Social Thought | 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Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country-our country-belongs to its dreamers .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: Current Affairs | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'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 Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | 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 Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | 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: General
'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
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. 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 ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Commemorative HB) by Richard Flanagan
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
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 Sound Of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion, this is a heartbreaking story, beautifully told' Literary Review From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. One of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history.In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in ...Show more
The Sound Of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. One of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history.In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into ...Show more