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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781741667233
'She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation. There had to be in the world of mechanical efficiency some mystery of transaction...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781741665222
'She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation. There had to be in the world of mechanical efficiency some mystery of transaction...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9780732031688
Alice is in Paris to write, and she is entranced by the aesthetics of technology. Mr Sakamoto, a survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, is an expert on Alexander Graham Bell. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth- century invention. This is a novel set in Paris...more details Format:Audio cassette Pages:240
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ISBN:9780732031695
Alice is in Paris to write, and she is entranced by the aesthetics of technology. Mr Sakamoto, a survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, is an expert on Alexander Graham Bell. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth- century invention. This is a novel set in Paris...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:240
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781843431978
From the boundlessness of space walking to the frustrating constrictions of one person's daily existence, this title paints with grace and skill the experience of needing to belong despite wanting to be alone....more details Format:Hardback Pages:240
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9780099472049
Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology and, in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign, sees the poetry of modernity. Mr Sakamoto...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781907986390
Hi. This is Rachel again. After all the trouble I told you about in my first book 'Family Secrets', I was really looking forward to going back to Scarborough for the summer holidays...more details Format:Paperback Pages:222
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9780807614402
In this arresting and richly imaginative collection of twelve stories, Gail Jones explores the role of obsession -- the inescapable loves and torments she calls fetishes -- in the lives of both the famous and the ordinary. Structured around a series of lyrical echoes and repeated images...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:178
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781250003737
Told over the course of a single Saturday in Sydney, "Five Bells," by the author of "Black Mirror," describes four lives that come to share not only a place and time...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781864710830
On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Each of the four is haunted by memories of the past: Ellie is preoccupied by her experiences as a girl...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781843431954
"Photography has without doubt made her a seer; she is a woman of the future, someone leaning into time, beyond others, precarious, unafraid to fall..." This is the story of Lucy Strange...more details Format:Hardback
'Photography has without doubt made her a seer; she is a woman of the future, someone leaning into time, beyond others, precarious, unafraid to fall...' This is the story of Lucy Strange...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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ISBN:9780732029555
In 1860, Lucy Strange and her brother are orphaned. The children slowly begin to find their way in the world and Lucy begins her adolescent journey of discovery - one which will take her away from her home in Australia...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:224
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9780732029548
In 1860, Lucy Strange and her brother are orphaned. The children slowly begin to find their way in the world and Lucy begins her adolescent journey of discovery - one which will take her away from her home in Australia...more details Format:Audio cassette Pages:224
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781741669008
In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781741666632
In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781846550539
A story of a young girl's survival against the odds, this title explores the values of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice....more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9780099507093
In the remote outback of North-west Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Emotionally adrift...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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ISBN:9780732033750
In the remote outback of Western Australia, during WWII, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella raise a lonely child, Perdita...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9780732033743
In the remote outback of Western Australia, during WWII, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella raise a lonely child, Perdita...more details Format:Audio cassette
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9781933372556
A hauntingly beautiful quest for love and forgiveness. In the remote Australian outback during World War II the emotionally adrift child of an English couple is befriended by equally anomalous strangers. Perdita becomes friends with a deaf and mute boy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:232
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9780807614556
The invasion of East Timor, the sinking of the Titanic, Freud's encounter with an "imbecile dwarf", astronomy, pregnancy, Tiananmen Square, a remote Aboriginal community: these historical episodes and narratives inspire the fourteen superb and engaging short stories in The House of Breathing...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:159
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Gail Jones
ISBN:9780868197999
The Piano written and directed by Jane Campion, is one of the most honoured films of the new Australian cinema, and is considered, by many critics...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:80
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M Gail Jones;Tracy Y Jones Brett DHargrove
ISBN:9780742526266
To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:179
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Jones Gail
ISBN:9781741668544
Victoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working in Paris, mixing with the artists of the Surrealist movement. Her work was largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Jones Gail
ISBN:9781864710601
On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Each carries a childhood and a complicated history from elsewhere; each is haunted by past intimacies...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Michael D Crick;Tracy Jones M GailHargrove
ISBN:9780742526273
To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Gail Kauranen Jones
ISBN:9781587362699
Guides baby boomers through four life-altering events: changing careers, motherhood, eldercare, and coping with death....more details Format:Paperback Pages:172