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Julia Blackburn
The highly acclaimed author of Daisy Bates in the Desert and With Billie presents the story of her own difficult coming of age, and of the intricate tangle of her…
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A study of the tiny tropical island of St Helena and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte who lived there in exile for the final six years of his life. It…
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A biography of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie…
Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccentricities, but…
In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary…
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One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of…
En lugar de relatar, como dicta el canon, el ascenso y declive del objeto de esta reconstruccion arqueologica -con tintes de investigacion detectivesca-, Blackbum nos propone otra aproximacion: permite que…
In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping out fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse…
As this fiercely original book begins, readers know only that the narrator has lost someone she loves. In her bereavement she creates a past in which she might both lose…
In 12,000 pages of notebooks, Lloyd and Bleek meticulously recorded their words - their dreams, memories, hopes, history and beliefs - creating an extraordinary archive of this now extinct people…
This blend of documentary and fiction describes the author’s search for Daisy Bates, an eccentric woman who lived alone in the deserts of South Australia in the early years of…
The voices of piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, producers and critics, narcotics agents, friends, lovers, and fellow musicians provide a complete and complex picture of Billie Holiday.
An account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through times of war and…
In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helenad surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about…
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. The author follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years…
A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to Holland
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Tells the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she…
Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017 John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917…
Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and then to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, cursed by racial prejudice, sexual inhibition and…
The author and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger speaking no Italian, but a series of…
Thomas Blackburn
Originally published: London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1971.
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From the award-winning author of the memoir The Three of Us comes a lyrical exploration–part travelogue and part history–of Doggerland, the area beneath the North Sea which, until 6,000 years…
42 lively, funny, moving and erotic poems written in the voice of Picasso’s young mistress Marie Therese, with illustrations by Jeff Fisher.
Livia Blackburne
A picture book about a young immigrant who stays connected to her grandmother through communication and love.
Gender-based violence (GBV) and its relationship to rurality is a challenging topic and this edited collection provides an innovative analysis of GBV in rural communities. The book explores patterns of…
