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Ned Quinn's impulsive response to a lonely hearts ad draws him out of his self-imposed solitude into the Queensland outback and an unexpected affair. But Quinn suffers from schizophrenia, and his developing relationship with Jennifer Duncan is threatened by the fears of the small valley co...
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Dean McAdam, a witty and streetwise teenager, is recovering from an horrific car crash which killed his mother, pitched his sister into a permanent vegetative state, and left him paralysed from the waist down. Dean nurtures a fierce ambition to become a microbiologist; to this end he conve...
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This is Francis King at his very best. He enters not only the world and sensibilities of Stefano, old and declining, a prince from an ancient Sicilian family with an unfinished novel in him, but the simple, good-natured and damaged heart of Steve, an Australian hitch-hiking the world, who ...
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Winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book
Robert de la Borde comes to England in the 1980`s from the Caribbean after hearing that his brother, Jean Marc, has died. In Bristol, his brother`s journals prompt Robert to visit Ashton Park Monastery, which Jean Marc entered in...
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Whether the setting for these stories is in Korea, Argentina, Slovenia, India, Japan or England, whether the characters are young or old, poor or rich, educated or uneducated, happy or unhappy, King is a writer whose eye and ear are always alert and whose hand at the shutter never falters....
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