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  • Battarbee and Namatjira

    by Martin Edmond ...
    Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbee introduced Namatjira to the techniques of water-colour painting, through the period of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 59 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand. In these fictional works he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would travel from miles around to ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zone of the Marvellous

    In Search of the Antipodes

    by Martin Edmond ...
    Imaginative and cerebral, this volume recounts the fantastic history of the antipodes—namely Australia and New Zealand—from the Western perspective over the course of the past five millennia. Tracing the fiction underlying the fact in the tales of, among others, Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Thomas More, this remarkable compilation explores the imagination of travelers, writers, map-makers, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chronicle of the Unsung

    by Martin Edmond ...
    The development of the artistic identity is revealed in this autobiography of an award-winning screenwriter. Anecdotes of travels and relationships with friends, roommates, and lovers are balanced with aesthetic encounters with artists such as Van Gogh, Gaugin, and Rimbaud. Episodes in Amsterdam, London, Sydney, Fiji, and New Zealand demonstrate the impact of place on the author's personal life. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barefoot Years

    by Martin Edmond ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory’s infinite field.Martin Edmond’s Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. It is evocative and poignant, detailed yet fragmentary, full of half-forgotten things: what may be recovered also reveals that which is gone forever. These ... Read more

    $4.02 CAD

  • Waimarino County

    & Other Excursions

    by Martin Edmond ...
    Looking outwards, into the past, and to the natural landscape for inspiration, these masterful essays offer elegant ruminations on the experience of living. Divided into four distinct sections, the collection explores memories of a small-town childhood, examines subjects such as the Rosetta Stone, and investigates the meaning of dreams before delivering its grand finale: a meditation on the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BWB Texts: Writers' Lives

    Series series BWB Texts
    Award-winning New Zealand writers Martin Edmond, Maurice Gee, Kirsty Gunn and Owen Marshall explore life and memory in this bundle of BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. Martin Edmond’s Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • The Dreaming Land

    by Martin Edmond ...
    So here I am walking again an old path made new by the very fact that I am upon it once more, accompanied by familiar hordes: the fecund majority of the dead, the myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise, traversing memory’s infinite field.In the evocative prose that makes him one of our finest writers, Martin Edmond recalls his experiences of growing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Expatriates

    by Martin Edmond ...
    The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendents of those colonists return to interrogate the centre.This is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, Foreign Editor of The Times; Ronald Syme, spy, libertarian, historian of ancient Rome; John Platts ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Winged Sandals

    by Martin Edmond ...
    Having tried it before, he swore he wouldn’t again: Martin Edmond was a reluctant taxi driver on the streets of Sydney — three times taking up a trade like Charon’s, ferrying souls to keep himself in writing time. In this essay he explores the history and challenges of the profession, carrying the good, the bad and the delinquent through the underbelly of Sydney. He describes his ambivalence, ... Read more

    $3.23 CAD

  • Dark Night

    Walking with McCahon

    by Martin Edmond ...
    In 1984, on his way to a major exhibition opening, celebrated New Zealand painter Colin McCahon went missing for 24 hours in Sydney, Australia. He was discovered by police the next day on a bench in Centennial Park with no identification and suffering from amnesia; by all accounts, McCahon was never quite the same from this night until his death three years later. This work of creative nonfiction ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ISINGLASS

    by Martin Edmond ...
    He did this amazing wall painting, this mural...It was a city, a Paul Klee or a Max Ernst city, a city of the mind perhaps, or of antiquity. A dream city. It was a wonderful thing. It took a few days and nights to do, beautiful days and nights. All the other men who lived in the donga watched it come clear. They loved it. And then other men in the camp heard about it too and came to look.An ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus