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Follows eight Australian childhood friends during the 1950s to the 1980s as they each pursue their own destiny, in a story that travels from the outback to China, and many places in between

Hardcover:

9780312180737 | St Martins Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Follows eight Australian childhood friends during the 1950s to the 1980s as they each pursue their own destiny, in a story that travels from the outback to China, and many places in between

Paperback:

9781743312803 | Allen & Unwin, September 1, 2012, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: In this highly original book, Nicholas Jose sets out to discover Roger Jose -- perhaps a distant relative -- and his life in a remote Aboriginal community on Australia's farthest shore. Roger's chosen motto, still pinned up in Borroloola, was 'Man's greatness is the fewness of his needs...read more

Paperback:

9781743313381 | Allen & Unwin, July 1, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this highly original book, Nicholas Jose sets out to discover Roger Jose -- perhaps a distant relative -- and his life in a remote Aboriginal community on Australia's farthest shore.

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Product Description: “Unprecedented in the breadth of what it offers from both the ancient and the recent literature of my country.”―Thomas Keneally, from the foreword The result of a collaboration between Sydney’s Macquarie University and International PEN Sydney Centre, and funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Research Council, The Literature of Australia gathers the most distinctive and most significant of the nation’s writing...read more
By Nicholas Jose (editor)

Hardcover:

9780393072617, titled "The Literature of Australia: An Anthology" | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 8, 2009, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: “Unprecedented in the breadth of what it offers from both the ancient and the recent literature of my country.

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When Shen, an American-educated appraiser at a Shanghai auction house, falls in love with Ruth, an Australian artist, he discovers that their present-day situation strangely mirrors the lives of characters in a rare, two-hundred-year-old Chinese manuscript of which the final two chapters are missing. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780811829519 | Chronicle Books Llc, September 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Shen, an American-educated appraiser at a Shanghai auction house, falls in love with Ruth, an Australian artist, he discovers that their present-day situation strangely mirrors the lives of characters in a rare, two-hundred-year-old Chinese manuscript of which the final two chapters are missing.

Paperback:

9780811836906 | Reprint edition (Chronicle Books Llc, October 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When Shen, an American-educated appraiser at a Shanghai auction house, falls in love with Ruth, an Australian artist, he discovers that their present-day situation strangely mirrors the lives of characters in a rare, two-hundred-year-old Chinese manuscript of which the final two chapters are missing.

Prebinding:

9781417723799, titled "Red Thread: A Love Story" | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: An elegant and multi-layered novel, drawing comparisons with Memoirs of a Geisha and The English Patient, The Red Thread is rich, moving and unforgettable.

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Product Description: Set in contemporary Shanghai, this work tells the story of Shen, a Chinese art dealer and Ruth, a young Australian artist. Their obsessive love is mirrored in an antique manuscript, and when Ruth falls prey to a terminal illness, Shen embarks on a quest for the missing chapters.

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9780571203352 | Faber & Faber, September 1, 2001, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Set in contemporary Shanghai, this work tells the story of Shen, a Chinese art dealer and Ruth, a young Australian artist.
9780571206490, titled "The Red Thread" | New edition (Gardners Books, June 18, 2001), cover price $11.65 | About this edition: An elegant and multi-layered novel, drawing comparisons with Memoirs of a Geisha and The English Patient, The Red Thread is rich, moving and unforgettable.

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Cast ashore on an uncharted island with his daughter, whom he adores in an unfatherly fashion, seventeenth-century naturalist Edward Popple encounters a Chinese eunuch and his princeling master, who crave Popple's navigational skills and his daughter as much as he desires their rare yellow rose

Hardcover:

9780879516734 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Cast ashore on an uncharted island with his daughter, whom he adores in an unfatherly fashion, seventeenth-century naturalist Edward Popple encounters a Chinese eunuch and his princeling master, who crave Popple's navigational skills and his daughter as much as he desires their rare yellow rose

Paperback:

9780879517977 | Overlook Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $13.95

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Wally Frith, an Australian cancer specialist, heads for China to accept a post at Peking Union Medical College, but his immersion in the culture of Beijing is overshadowed by the disappearance of Professor Hsu Chien Lung, a respected cancer researcher from the medical college

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9780525249641 | E P Dutton, March 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Wally Frith, an Australian cancer specialist, heads for China to accept a post at Peking Union Medical College, but his immersion in the culture of Beijing is overshadowed by the disappearance of Professor Hsu Chien Lung, a respected cancer researcher from the medical college

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When Penny Tregenza marries at nineteen, her uncle Jack thinks back on their relationship and her family

Paperback:

9780140100198 | Penguin USA, May 1, 1988, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: When Penny Tregenza marries at nineteen, her uncle Jack thinks back on their relationship and her family

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Hardcover:

9780702215377 | Univ of Queensland Pr, April 1, 1981, cover price $17.50

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