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English for the Australian Curriculum Book 2 Bundle by Brenton Doecke; Graham Parr; Rita van Haren; Mel Dixon; Suzanne Kiraly; Larissa McLean Davies; Karren Philp; Alison Robertson; Gary Simmons
Category: Reference
English for the Australian Curriculum Book 2 draws on a wide variety of contemporary textual modes to encourage students to explore what texts tell us about ourselves, our place in the world, and how we communicate and interact with others
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Deptford Trilogy Ser.
"Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross, and destined to be caught in a no-man's-land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood he ...Show more
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies; Timothy Findley (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he ...Show more
Murther & Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies
Category: Fiction
'I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.' So begins the story of Connor 'Gil' Gilmartin when he catches his wife in flagrante with the Sniffer, his former colleague and now his murderer. Unfortunately, death is ...Show more
The Cornish Trilogy: What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Category: Fiction
The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find th ...Show more
The Cornish Trilogy: What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Category: Fiction
Woven around the pursuits of the spirits and scholars of the University of St John and the Holy Ghost, this trilogy of novels lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion and Gothic fantasy. The author also wrote "The Salterton Trilogy" and "The Deptford Trilogy".
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
Category: Fiction
This novel tells the story of "the cunning man", from boyhood to old age, who is a doctor but also possibly a shaman. In it the author explores religion, psychosymatic illness, love and death.
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
Category: Fiction
"A delight, a novel that travels 70 years of history on its own swift feet, a book of love and wisdom, loss and irony"--The Boston Sunday Globe When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high alter on Good Friday, Dr. Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic work has earned him the label "Cunning Man" (for th ...Show more
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
Category: Fiction
When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet 'cunning man' - wants to know why. But it is only through looking back at his own long life that answers are forthcoming. He recalls the dazzling intellectual h ...Show more
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Category: Fiction
Features a trilogy of novels including: "Fifth Business"; "The Manticore"; and, "World of Wonders".
The Deptford Trilogy : Fifth Business ; The Manticore ; World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
Category: Fiction
At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay, intended victim of the snowball, who, fatefully, ducks; his 'lifelong friend and enemy' Percy Boyd Staunton, angered by their ...Show more