In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter...more details
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780140285215
This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who set sail for Tasmania to find the garden of Eden; the other of a young Tasmanian aborigine and his tribe...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780241140680
This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who set sail for Tasmania to find the garden of Eden; the other of a young Tasmanian aborigine and his tribe...more details Format:Hardback Pages:480
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780753813065
Daniel Thayne, a young Englishman, finds himself trapped in Tokyo: working illegally in a ramshackle language school, his passport lost, he is hustled towards marriage with Keiko...more details Format:Paperback Pages:171
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780297828990
Daniel Thayne, a young Englishman, finds himself trapped in Tokyo; working illegally in a ramshackle language school, his passport lost, he is hustled towards marriage with Keiko...more details Format:Hardback Pages:160
Peter is a middle of the road, solicitor. His kids are leaving home and he is finding it hard to keep up with the neighbours and his colleagues at work...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:62
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9781400079575
A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he's always hungered for. A salesman in Africa gets caught up in a riot...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780330435352
Matthew Kneale takes us on a journey around today's uncertain world. From England to South America, China to the Middle East, the United States to Africa...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780330435345
In his gripping new work, Matthew Kneale takes us on a journey around today's uncertain world. From England to South America, China to the Middle East...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780140296631
London in the summer of 1849. With a deadly cholera epidemic threatening, young engineer Joshua Jeavons is convinced it is his mission to save the capital and reform its festering sewers. Meanwhile in his dometsic life he is troubled by the baffling coldness shown towards him by his beautiful bride...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
A powerful, richly inventive new novel from the Whitbread Award-winning, Booker-shortlisted author of English Passengers. Lawrence is only a child...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:6
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780330435710
Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He watches protectively over his mother and his wilful little sister Jemima. He is the one who keeps things in order...more details Format:Hardback
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780330450065
Lawrence is only a child, but he's the man in his family. His little sister is still too young to understand. When their mother, paranoid that the kids' father is stalking them...more details Format:Paperback / softback
"When We Were Romans "is a haunting psychological novel and another masterful work from the author of the prize-winning "English Passengers." Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man of his family. He watches over his mother and his willful little sister Jemima. He is the one who keeps order...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9781597228459
Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that their estranged father is stalking them...more details Format:Paperback Pages:321
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780330435727
Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family, watching protectively over his mother and his wilful little sister Jemima. When the three of them suddenly move to Rome it seems at first to be a great adventure: a long drive through the night to the city of popes and emperors. But as his mother's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:296
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Matthew Kneale
ISBN:9780385526258
Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that their estranged father is stalking them...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224