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And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? by Richard Flanagan
32.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
'And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party. 'I write,' replied Faulkner. 'And what do you do, Mr Gable?' Collected here for the first time are the very best of Richard Flanagan's wide-ranging, free-wheeling writings on everything from direc ...Show more
First Person by Richard Flanagan
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal- $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghost write his memoir in six weeks.But as the wr ...Show more
First Person by Richard Flanagan
48.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined. Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung in the midd ...Show more
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
27.95 NZD
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: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The most remarkable novel yet from the internationally acclaimed author of Death of a River Guide and The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish is a marvelous historical epic of nineteenth-century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is rec ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
39.99 NZD
Category: Literature
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
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
26.00 NZD
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
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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 Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
26.00 NZD
Category: General 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
37.99 NZD
Category: General 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 Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Australian Booksellers' Choice Award Winner of the 2002 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction In Tasmania in the winter of 1954, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into a blizzard, never to return. Some thirty-five years later, when So ...Show more