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Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or
who had built it, but there it stood . . . casting a long, dark
shadow across the valley, across Preston itself. The Children's
Book Council of Australia 1995 Picture Book of the Year '. . . a
genuinely eerie picture book.' Kirkus Reviews
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The Viewer (Paperback)
Gary Crew; Illustrated by Shaun Tan
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R300
R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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For Tristan, the city dump was a treasure trove full of mystery. He
would take things apart to see how they worked. Then he found the
box, filled with lenses, polished glass and a microscope, and what
he saw was like nothing he had seen before.
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The Cuckoo (Hardcover)
Gary Crew
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R710
R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
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Martin is the runt of his family. Without a mother to protect him,
his overbearing father and brothers reject him. Aided by the
self-sacrifice of loving friends, Martin finds the courage to fight
for personal fulfilment.
An astonishingly original novel for adults from the multi
award-winning children's author, Gary Crew 'I lived many lives
beneath that piano ...I heard ten thousand stories in that space.
there I was privileged to observe, to gather - and not only gather,
to concentrate within myself - so much that is usually denied a
child of my age. As a result, I have, you might say, grown.' So
says Augustus trump - a dwarf destined to be a circus freak. Cursed
by nature as he is, Augustus is nevertheless blessed with a
determination to survive, and more than survive, to grow. this
growth, both in stature and in spirit, is brought about by a second
blessing - his divine voice: an instrument so sublime that even the
stars pay heed. Because no-one knows better the agonies, the
violence and the love that inform the poetic than Augustus trump:
dwarf, protege, man. tHE ARCHItECtURE OF SONG is a truly magical,
unique novel of beauty, imagination and song, with a cast of dark,
surprising characters who will enchant and delight you, just as the
songs of Augustus trump enchant and transform them.
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The Cuckoo (Paperback)
Gary Crew
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R409
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Discovery Miles 3 000
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Martin is the runt of his family. Without a mother to protect him,
his overbearing father and brothers reject him. Aided by the
self-sacrifice of loving friends, Martin finds the courage to fight
for personal fulfilment.
You ask, Can the dead speak? I answer, Is this blood that runs in
my veins, or ink? I ask that you read me. I ask that you hear me.
See me. Touch me. Others have, and tasted my blood So writes Jack
Ireland, 14 year old English-born survivor of the horrors of
capture by head hunters. In Voicing the Dead,
internationally-awarded author Gary Crew revisits the astonishing
story of nineteenth-century teenager Jack Ireland who survived and
lived to fight back through his never say die determination and
creativity.
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