$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage / ISBN:9781741665222)
Dreams Of Speaking
In this, her third novel, Gail Jones shows herself to be a writer more and more comfortable with her medium. Alice Black is a young academic with a grant to write about the aesthetics of modernity. For most of her life she has felt not quite connected. She arrives in Paris to write; ironically this is where her former lover, Stephen, is living. Still in love with her, Stephen tries to rekindle the relationship, but for Alice it is finished. She sees Paris with an outsider's eye; from her window she looks down onto a schoolyard and invents names and personalities to go with the people she observes. On a train returning from Chartres she strikes up a conversation with an elderly Japanese man who introduces himself as Mr Sakamato. An independent scholar, Mr Sakamoto is working on a biography on Alexander Graham Bell. Together they share a fascination for modernity. 'We must be friends, Alice Black,' Mr Sakamoto announces. Their friendship develops as they tell each other their stories and their ideas. Mr Sakamoto is a survivor of Nagasaki and his sharing of this trauma with Alice helps her to become more grounded. He tells and shows her things she didn't know. This is a beautifully realised novel about loneliness, friendship and ideas. *Mark Rubbo is from Readings Carlton*
Miles Franklin Shortlist 2007
Theft: A Love Story
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only... More »
Dreams Of Speaking
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In this, her third novel, Gail Jones shows herself to be a writer more and more comfortable with her medium. Alice Black is a young academic with a grant to write about the aesthetics of modernity. For most of her life s... More »
Carpentaria
$26.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Set in the small, isolated town of Desperance on the Gulf of Carpentaria, Alexis Wright’s second novel conjures up a sweeping and poetic panorama of life in a town that seems a world away from modern civilisation. And ye... More »
Gail Jones
Fetish Lives
$18.95 (Paperback book / Freemantle Press )
Praise for the work of multiple award-winning writer Gail Jones
. . . the depth and clarity with which she turns what she sees and imagines into words on a page is awesome. Julia Hancock, Vertigo
. . .poignant, idiosyncr... More »
House Of Breathing
$16.95 (Paperback book / Fremantle Arts Ct Pr )
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: the stories in this powerful collection by Gail J... More »
Sixty Lights
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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, a photographer, while the art is ... More »
Dreams Of Speaking
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In this, her third novel, Gail Jones shows herself to be a writer more and more comfortable with her medium. Alice Black is a young academic with a grant to write about the aesthetics of modernity. For most of her life s... More »