Author: Brian Castro
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Set in the Dandenongs between the Depression and World War II, the book revolves around Swan Hay, the daughter of a Chinese schoolteacher, and her relationships with brutal bushman Darcy Damon, and an American aviator an ...

Author: Brian Castro
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Mr You is a Chinese architect in his middle years, professionally successful but scarred by a complex past. Both his parents are dead and an accident in a railway yard has left him both physically and psychologically dam ...

Author: Brian Castro
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Explores the world of Freud and the pilgrims that made their way to him. Winner of The Age fiction prize in 1991 and shortlist Miles Franklin Award 1992.

Author: Brain Castro & Brian Castro
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Shanghai Dancing marks the U.S. debut of the major Australian literary figure, Brian Castro. A fictional autobiography, Shanghai Dancing is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation by a writer who h ...

Author: Brian Castro
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an ageing art forger a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector and a doctor, who has built ...

Author: William Blinn
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Drama

Two men. Once names Gale Sayers, the other Brian Piccolo. They came from different parts of the country. They competed fiercely for the same job. One liked to talk the other was shy. One was white the other black. This i ...

Author: Gary Paulsen
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Action & Adventure

He would have to find some way to protect himself, some weapon. The fire worked well when it was burning, but it had burned down. His hatchet and knife would have done nothing more than make the bear really angry -- some ...

Author: Gary Paulsen
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Nature Forests & Trees
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Self-esteem & Self-reliance
Category:Childrens Fiction - Nature & the Natural World

Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, and Brian's Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers be ...

Author: Paulsen Gary
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Action & Adventure

Returning to civilization after his isolated journey of survival in the wilderness, Brian Robeson feels very much out of place and can't seem to cope as a high school student, so he makes the decision to return to the No ...

Author: Gary Paulsen
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Action & Adventure

He would have to find some way to protect himself, some weapon. The fire worked well when it was burning, but it had burned down. His hatchet and knife would have done nothing more than make the bear really angry -- some ...

Author: Gary Paulsen
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations

As millions of readers of "Hatchet, The River, " and "Brian's Winter" know, Brian Robeson is the ultimate survivor. Alone in the wilderness, he faced the elements and lived on the edge of death. Now that he's back in civ ...

Author: Gary Paulsen
Binding: Audio Book - CD
Category:Childrens Fiction - Classics

In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. He was rescued at the end of the summer. Brian's Winterbegins where Hatchet might have ended: Brian ...

Author: Gary Paulsen
Binding: Hardback Book

Author: Volker Skierka
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military General
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military Political
Category:History - World 20th Century

Fidel Castro is one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of our time - he has become a myth and an icon. He was the first Cuban Caudillo - the man who freed his country from dependence on the USA and w ...

Author: Clive Foss
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military General
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military Political
Category:History - Medieval

Fidel Castro is a dynamic and charismatic leader, who has led Cuba through success and failures since 1959. Son of a rich landowner, he became a radical revolutionary who attempted to overthrow the government in 1956 wit ...

Author: Volker Skierka
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military General
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military Political
Category:History - Medieval
Category:Politics & Government - Political Ideologies & Structures Anarchism
Category:Politics & Government - Political Ideologies & Structures Marxism, Socialism & Communism

In this up-to-date reconstruction of Castro's life story, Volker Skierka provides an account of the economic, social and political history of Cuba since Castro's childhood. It draws on a number of little known sources, i ...

Author: Robert E. Quirk
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Biography & Autobiography - Historical, Political & Military General
Category:Politics & Government - Political Ideologies & Structures Marxism, Socialism & Communism

This biography presents a portrait of Fidel Castro, the communist leader of Cuba. It provides an account of Castro's relations with the United States and the Soviet Union, including the Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 ...

Author: Charles W Carey
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Business & Economics - Economics General
Category:Business & Economics - Economics Conditions, Growth & Devleopment
Category:History - United States 20th Century
Category:History - Medieval

Fidel Castro took control of Cuba in 1959, and for the last 44 years he has presided over the transformation of Cuban economics, politics, and society. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 necessitated the return of ...

Author: People in the News
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Biography & Autobiography
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Biography & Autobiography Political
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History Other
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Politics & Government
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Science

Author: Norberto Fuentes
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Fiction - Historical General

An autobiography of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro. It presents a discussion ranging from Castro's early sexual experiences in Biran to his true feelings about Che Guevara and his philosophy on murder, legacy and state se ...

Author: Fidel Castro
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:History - Caribbean & West Indies
Category:History - Caribbean & West Indies Cuba

Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every i ...