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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
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
$38.47 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
Unfolding against the ravishing background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilisation, Anil's Ghost is a compelling literary spellbinder. A timeless work of art and revelatory journey. Hardback
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
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
$21.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Anne EnrightBefore the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the p ...Show more
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/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 Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"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 Conversations : Walter Murch and the art of editing film by Michael Ondaatje
$45.00 AUD
Category: Film/TV
During the filming of his celebrated novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Michael Ondaatje became increasingly fascinated as he watched the veteran editor Walter Murch at work. THE CONVERSATIONS, which grew out of discussions between the two men, is about the craft of filmmaking and deals with every aspect of fil ...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
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$18.65 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$24.73 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Bloomsbury Classics | Reading Level: very good
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$20.85 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of t ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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