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  • The Vivisector

    by Patrick White ...
    Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick WhiteHurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Hanging Garden

    A Novel

    by Patrick White ...
    "Indisputably one of the century's greatest writers." —Annie Proulx" The Hanging Garden is a novel for our time--a story about parentless children, mistreated by a world that, by its lights, intends no harm but nonetheless does enduring damage." — The New York Times Book Review (cover review, 05/26/13)From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Eye of the Storm comes a vivid, visceral tale of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Eye of the Storm

    A Novel

    by Patrick White ...
    Nobel Prize winner Patrick White's masterpiece, The Eye of the Storm, the basis for the film starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davies, and Geoffrey Rush.In White's 1973 classic, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter is facing death while her impatient children—Sir Basil, the celebrated actor, and Princess de Lascabane, an adoptive French aristocrat—wait. It is the dying mother who will command ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Ham Funeral

    by Patrick White ...
    Rejected by the 1962 Adeladie Festival Board of Governors as ‘unappetising fare’ - The Ham Funeral is now considered a modern classic.Set in a squalid British boarding house, the play tells the story of a young poet, who lodges with Mr and Mrs Lusty, a bloated, gluttonous pair. When her husband dies abruptly, Mrs Lusty announces a grand funeral featuring a lavish feast, in his honour. Driven by ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • More Lore From The Mythos

    by Charles Reis, L.E. Harrison, Dale Drake, Ryan Colley, Valerie Lioudis, Kari Leigh Sanders, Aaron White, Patrick J Rahall, Steve Van Samson, EV Knight, Edward Morris, Jon Tobey, Oliver Lodge, Michael Clark ...
    Fourteen fresh tales of madness and monsters from Fractured Mind Publishing that will leave you wanting more while you thank the Old Gods for the Mythos that inspired these stories. The astounding authors that weave these new webs of madness include: Edward Morris Valerie Lioudis Aaron White Jon Tobey Oliver Lodge Ryan Colley L.E. Harrison Kari Leigh Sanders Dale Drake Charles Reis Steve Van ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Uneasy Pieces

    by Patrick White ...
    In this book the author addresses the problem of growing old and the "warts of the soul" which, if gouged out, ruin the flesh. We must wait, he says, for the evil in us to die naturally. Presenting a peeled potato, a dance in the kitchen and a visit to the aged mother of a childhood friend, he considers our struggle, our efforts to achieve aesthetic perfection and suggests some resolutions. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Developing Research Questions

    by Patrick White ...
    This no fuss, compact guide steers social science students of all levels through the complex process of conducting a research project. It explains how to break down initial ideas and broad topics into manageable questions and gives detailed guidance on how to refine these as the project progresses. With a wide range of international examples and reflective exercises, it is packed with handy tips ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Straightforward Statistics

    by Patrick White ...
    Are you struggling with introductory statistics? Are you trying to get ahead in your course, but feel like you're going around in circles? This short and down-to-earth textbook will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to get acquainted with the fundamentals of statistical concepts and techniques.Assuming no prior knowledge, and avoiding jargon and dense equations, it will ease your ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Season at Sarsaparilla

    A charade of suburbia

    by Patrick White ...
    Patrick White's classic 1965 drama The Season at Sarsaparilla is 'a charade of suburbia', a play of shadows, rather than substance. The neighbours that populate the play are held by their environment, waiting with determination, but little expectation, for the inevitable cycle of birth, copulation and death. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Voss & The Twyborn Affair

    Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

    by Patrick White ...
    Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Hattie Morahan, Penny Downie, Paul English, Stanley McGeagh, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 30 min

    Dramatisations of two novels by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick WhiteAustralian author Patrick White is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. His debut novel, 1939’s Happy Valley, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society, and he won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature – the only Australian to have received the ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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  • A Textbook of General Practice 3E

    by Patrick White, Ann Wylie ...
    An essential guide to general practice and being a general practitioner, A Textbook of General Practice is written specifically with the medical student and foundation doctor in mind, reflecting current teaching practice. Readers are encouraged to learn through doing, with practical exercises throughout the book. Student and tutor quotes offer insights into personal experience, while thinking and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • A Forgotten British War

    The Accounts of Korean War Veterans

    Edited by Michael Patrick Cullinane, Iain Johnston-White ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents oral histories from the last surviving UK veterans of the Korean War. With the help of the UK National Army Museum and the British Korean Society, this book collects nearly twenty testimonials of UK veterans of the Korean War. Many only teenagers when mobilized, these veterans attempt to put words to the violence and trauma they experienced. They recall the landscape and people ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD