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Crossing the Gap by Christopher Koch
Category: Fiction
A fascinating insight into a major Australian novelist's development, this collection of pieces employs the memoir as springboard, presenting us with reflections on literature and an analysis of Australia's changing place in the world over the author's lifetime - a lifetime stretching from the British E ...Show more
Highways to a War: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1996 by Christopher Koch
Category: Fiction
The brilliant companion volume to OUT OF IRELAND. Winner of the 1996 Miles Franklin Award. When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of thi ...Show more
Lost Voices by Christopher Koch
Category: Fiction
Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great-uncle Walter-- a wealthy lawyer who lives alone in a Tasmanian farmhouse passed down through t ...Show more
Memory Room by KOCH Christopher
Category: Fiction
Vincent Austin analyses his future occupation. Some spies are made, he says, but his kind is born. He is devoted to secrecy for its own sake. His fascination with secrecy and espionage - and much else besides - is shared to an uncanny degree by Erika Lange, daughter of a post-World War German immigrant. ...Show more
Memory Room by Christopher Koch
Category: Fiction
'What is a spy? Are they born, or are they made?'With these words, Vincent Austin analyses his future occupation. Some spies are made, he says, but his kind is born. He is devoted to secrecy for its own sake. Vincent is orphaned early, and his boyhood in Tasmania is spent with an elderly aunt. His fasci ...Show more
Out of Ireland by Christopher Koch
Category: Fiction
"A leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1948, Robert Devereux is an Irish gentleman who is prepared to hazard a life of privilege in the fight for his country's freedom. Transported to Van Diemen's Land as a political prisoner, he enters a life that greatly changes him, falling in love with a young ...Show more
The Doubleman: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1985 by Christopher Koch
Category: Fiction
'How do we pierce the skin? Did they teach you that at University?' Clive Broderick, guitar - teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief - systems crumbled, and the s ...Show more
The Memory Room by Christopher Koch
Category: Fiction
This novel is essentially a psychological study of a spy, and an exploration of secrecy. It is also a study of the pathological condition known as folie a deux - the madness of two - in which two people share a common set of fantasies and delusions. Thus, although the novel has espionage as one aspect o ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
Category: Fiction
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into t ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a sh ...Show more
Welcome to Metropolis - Riding Solo into the Heart of America by Christopher Koch
Category: Travel
Eager for a "doable adventure," author Christopher Koch sets off on an impromptu 2,500 mile motorcycle trip down the Mississippi River from St. Paul to New Orleans in early November 2014- ill-equipped and underprepared as an unexpected arctic air mass, the death rattle of a Pacific Supertyphoon, slams i ...Show more
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