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Navigatio by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction
Navigatio tells the story of Saint Brendan of Clonfert, a sixth century monk and adventurer, and his legendary quest for the Isle of the Blessed via a gauntlet of monsters, devils, angels, prophets and beautiful maidens. Brendan's battles with the sea and the cosmos bear out what William Faulkner once c ...Show more
Oblivion by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction
Evocative and sparely written, in the tradition of The Mary Smokes Boys, this is a novel where the journey becomes the story, filled with acute observation, desire and dreams. ‘Before nightfall I rode a taxi through Narita. Neon-lit restaurants and bars and dark cypress. The snow and a wind from the Sea ...Show more
One by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction
The last bushrangers in Australian history, James and Patrick Kenniff, were at the height at their horse thieving operation at turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains of Western Queensland - the brothers know the terrain too well, and the locals ...Show more
Riding the Trains in Japan - Travels in the Sacred and Supermodern East by Patrick Holland
Category: Travel
Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey is the starting point for a book that also describes travels through Vietnam, mountains in the C ...Show more
Riding the Trains in Japan: Travels in the Sacred and Supermodern East by Patrick Holland
Category: Travel Literature
Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey is the starting point for a book that also describes travels through Vietnam, mountains in the C ...Show more
The Darkest Little Room by HOLLAND PATRICK
Category: Fiction
The darkest little room in the world is the human heart, she said at last. Even yours, perhaps, has black secrets that you would never let into the light. Patricks Hollands haunting new novel arises from his experiences in Indochina. An atmospheric literary thriller, it tells the story of Joseph, an Aus ...Show more
The Long Road of the Junkmailer by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction
A lonely junkmailer, his bag full of real estate leaflets, wanders the streets of a sleeping, subtropical city. Accompanied by a host of bizarre companions he is led on a quixote journey through the night time streets.
The Long Road of the Junkmailer by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction
A lonely junkmailer, his bag full of real estate leaflets, wanders the streets of a sleeping subtropical city. With adventure in his heart, his search for letterboxes takes on epic proportions throughout the night as dream and reality collide. Accompanied by a host of bizarre companions - a girl who has ...Show more
The Mary Smokes Boys by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction
Grey’s mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and he prays that she will be returned to him so he might protect her from the world as his father did not. This prayer, Grey believes is answered in his sister Irene. He becomes obsessed with protecting her purity and innocence while befriending the w ...Show more
The Source of the Sound by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction
The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home, through the terrestrial infernos and purgatories of supermodernity. In almost every story there is some elemental contact with light and sound; the characters' longing for simple, uncorrupted signs that would render life in the 21s ...Show more
The Source of the Sound by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction | Series: Salt Modern Fiction S.
"The Source of the Sound" traces the journeys of exiles in search of home, through the terrestrial infernos and purgatories of supermodernity. In almost every story there is some elemental contact with light and sound; the characters' longing for simple, uncorrupted signs that would render life in the 2 ...Show more
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