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Daisy Bates in the Desert by Julia Blackburn
Category: Biography
In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years.In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy. She fu ...Show more
Dreaming the Karoo - A People Called The /Xam by Julia Blackburn
Category: History
In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa. She had long been fascinated by the indigenous group called the /Xam, who were brutally forced from their ancestral lands by European settlers in the nineteenth century. Facing extinction and the death of their language, seve ...Show more
Dreaming the Karoo - A People Called the /Xam by Julia Blackburn
Category: History
In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa. She had long been fascinated by the indigenous group called the /Xam, who were brutally forced from their ancestral lands by European settlers in the nineteenth century. Facing extinction and the death of their language, seve ...Show more
Leper's Companion,the by Julia Blackburn
Category: Fiction
One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of the villagers on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea to Venice, and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land.
Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn
Category: Art
An account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through times of war and political turmoil he continued to work with passion and ferocious energy, transforming the scenes around him into his visionary artwork.
The Book of Colour by Julia Blackburn
Category: History
'Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and finally to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, cursed by racial prejudice, sexual inhibition and recurrent mental illness. This first novel is a powerfully and cleverly written expurgation of perso ...Show more
The Three of Us - A Family Story by Julia Blackburn
Category: Biography Memoir
This is the story of three people- Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her co ...Show more
The Woman Who Always Loved Picasso by Julia Blackburn; Jeff Fisher (Illustrator)
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The life of Picasso's model Marie-Therese, told in 42 short poems. It is unusual for Carcanet to produce an illustrated book, and in this case to host so distinguished an illustrator and designer as Jeff Fisher. His drawings animate the vivid voice of Marie-Therese, created with great immediacy by Julia ...Show more
Thin Paths: Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
Category: History
The author and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. This village was at the heart of the conflict between the fascists and the partisans, so they learnt a lot about death and fear and hunger and how men and women could hide like foxes in the mountains. This tit ...Show more
Thin Paths - Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
Category: Travel
This title is shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close to the old people o ...Show more
Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn
Category: Art and Design
Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015. John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in and out of what was described as 'a stuporous state'. In 1923 he started making paintings ...Show more