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A Little America in Western Australia - The US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape and the Founding of Exmouth by Michael Ondaatje; Anthony Barker
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: UWAP Scholarly Ser.
In 1963, the US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape in Western Australia became the first US defense facility to be established on Australian soil in peacetime. During America's Cold War struggle against communism, North West Cape's primary function was to communicate with the US fleet in the ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday TimesBased on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary r ...Show more
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Michael Ondaatje's remarkable masterpiece of a family memoir, reissued to mark 40 years since its first publication'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed... I think all of our lives have been terribly shaped by ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Hana, the Canadian nurse exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; Caravaggio, the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upsta ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) “The best novel I read this year […] The atmosphere of post-war London that he conjures has stayed with me, and I love how the plot slowly unwinds, so you feel that you’re coming to unders ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient. The past never remains in the past... London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war.14-year-o ...Show more
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