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Gilgamesh by Joan London
Category: Fiction
Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choos ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
Category: Classics
This is a magnificent book, a story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance. It is full of sparely depicted but fully fleshed characters and the wide sweep of history. It is 1937. On a tiny farm in the town of Nunderup, in far southwestern Australia, seventeen-year-old ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
Category: Fiction
Gilgameshis the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose ...Show more
Gilgamesh - 1 MP3 CD - Read by Deidre Rubenstein by Joan London
Category: Fiction
Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-east of Australia, are visited by their cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram. The two young men are taking the long way home after working on an archaeological dig in Iraq. It is 1937. The modern world they say, is waiting to ...Show more
Sunburnt Country by A. B. Facey; Connie Ellement; Kenneth Gasmier; T. A. G. Hungerford; Gail Jones; Vasso Kalamaras; John Lane; Simone Lazaroo; Pat Malcolm; Bill Marks; John A. McKenzie; Elizabeth Jolley; Jack McPhee; Connie Miller; Kim Scott; Joyce Shiner; Imelda P. Smith; Justina Williams; Beverley Dunn (Read by); James Wright (Read by); Sally Morgan; Joan London; Elizabeth Backhouse; Michal Bosworth; Emma Ciccotosto; Ron Davidson; Faye Davis
Category: Audio
Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
Category: Fiction
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
Category: Fiction
'He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home.' Perth, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Frank, survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. In ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
Category: Fiction
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
The Good Parents by Joan London
Category: Fiction
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they are told by her housemate that Maya has gone away and no one know ...Show more
The Good Parents by Joan London
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2009 Christina Stead Award for fictionMaya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they ...Show more
The Good Parents by Joan London
Category: Fiction
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they are told by her housemate that Maya has gone away a ...Show more