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In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
$22.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Picador Books | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their stories, the history of the city. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling b ...Show more
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
"In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$23.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Bloomsbury Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Hana, the Canadian nurse exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; Caravaggio, the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upsta ...Show more
The English Patient: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Michael Ondaatje
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient. The past never remains in the past... London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war.14-year-o ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) “The best novel I read this year […] The atmosphere of post-war London that he conjures has stayed with me, and I love how the plot slowly unwinds, so you feel that you’re coming to unders ...Show more
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