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Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and fa ...Show more
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, ...Show more
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean ...Show more
The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
If Michael Ondaatje's novels have the compression and power of poetry, his poems read like narratives that have been pared down to their essence. The poems brought together in this electrifying volume are stylish yet endlessly surprising explorations of friendship and passion, family history and persona ...Show more
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
William Bonney first killed another man when he was just twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had slain nineteen more. He was known as Billy the Kid, a bloodthirsty outlaw; a boy with buck teeth and a pleasant face who could shoot a stranger in the heart and calmly walk away while birds ravaged the ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and be ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$23.95 AUD
Category: 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
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$29.99 AUD
Category: 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
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$19.99 AUD
Category: 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