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Avenue of Eternal Peace

by Nicholas Jose ...

Beijing is a city of opportunity and danger when cancer specialist Wally Frith arrives there from Sydney. Chance encounters have life-changing consequences. As the doctor's journey spirals back into his own family story, memories and ghosts shadow the seductions of the present. "Avenue of Eternal Peace", a kaleidoscopic novel of healing and hope, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary ... Read more

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Beijing is a city of opportunity and danger when cancer specialist Wally Frith arrives there from Sydney. Chance encounters have life-changing consequences. As the doctor's journey spirals back into his own family story, memories and ghosts shadow the seductions of the present. "Avenue of Eternal Peace", a kaleidoscopic novel of healing and hope, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary
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The Idealist

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NEW WORK BY CELEBRATED NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST NICHOLAS JOSE, SET AGAINST THE TURMOIL OF THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN EAST TIMORSet in Australia, East Timor and Washington in the lead up to the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999, The Idealist is a novel which explores the entanglement of private and public life. It is a political mystery, the portrait of a marriage, a reflection on ... Read more

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NEW WORK BY CELEBRATED NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST NICHOLAS JOSE, SET AGAINST THE TURMOIL OF THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN EAST TIMORSet in Australia, East Timor and Washington in the lead up to the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999, The Idealist is a novel which explores the entanglement of private and public life. It is a political mystery, the portrait of a marriage, a reflection on
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The Rose Crossing

A Novel

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"A fable, set in the 17th century, filled with vivid evocations of another time [and] wonderfully peculiar characters." — Kirkus ReviewsTo escape Puritan England, naturalist Edward Popple signs on to be a ship's doctor on a journey across the Indian Ocean, and his daughter, Rosamund, stows away to accompany him. But a wreck leaves them stranded on an island off the coast of Africa.Amid the lush ... Read more

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"A fable, set in the 17th century, filled with vivid evocations of another time [and] wonderfully peculiar characters." — Kirkus ReviewsTo escape Puritan England, naturalist Edward Popple signs on to be a ship's doctor on a journey across the Indian Ocean, and his daughter, Rosamund, stows away to accompany him. But a wreck leaves them stranded on an island off the coast of Africa.Amid the lush
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The Custodians

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Eight young lives come together in Adelaide, beneath the solar eclipse of 1958. They remain entangled as their orbits extend across the planet and the upheavals of the next four decades.They are artists and politicians, philanthropists and hedonists, immigrants and expatriates and the original inhabitants of the continent, all bound—perhaps—by the ancient remains taken from an outback burial ... Read more

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Eight young lives come together in Adelaide, beneath the solar eclipse of 1958. They remain entangled as their orbits extend across the planet and the upheavals of the next four decades.They are artists and politicians, philanthropists and hedonists, immigrants and expatriates and the original inhabitants of the continent, all bound—perhaps—by the ancient remains taken from an outback burial
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Rowena’s Field

by Nicholas Jose ...

Series Book 37 - Untapped
Finishing school is an intoxicating feeling; life is about to begin. Who will you be? How will you know? What will it take to find out?It’s 1970 and Rowena Sonner is confronting these three questions. For her, the answer is to escape—first, from her upper middle class family’s expectations; then from conservative Adelaide and Australia itself—and to live. To love, lose, and learn from it all ... Read more

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Finishing school is an intoxicating feeling; life is about to begin. Who will you be? How will you know? What will it take to find out?It’s 1970 and Rowena Sonner is confronting these three questions. For her, the answer is to escape—first, from her upper middle class family’s expectations; then from conservative Adelaide and Australia itself—and to live. To love, lose, and learn from it all
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Paper Nautilus

by Nicholas Jose ...

"They wanted a love they could take into eternity." In a small town on the Australian coast Penny grows up to marry the boy who has waited for her. Few know the truth about her birth. Her uncle Jack is one, for he shared with her father not only his childhood but also the horror of their wartime experience. Jack and Penny's special bond is as rare and precious as the beautiful nautilus shell they ... Read more

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"They wanted a love they could take into eternity." In a small town on the Australian coast Penny grows up to marry the boy who has waited for her. Few know the truth about her birth. Her uncle Jack is one, for he shared with her father not only his childhood but also the horror of their wartime experience. Jack and Penny's special bond is as rare and precious as the beautiful nautilus shell they
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Original Face

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Lewis Lin is a taxi driver, photographer and recent arrival from Beijing. He finds himself drawn into a deadly web of deceit, involving Sydney's Chinese underworld, after a body is found dumped in outer suburban Sydney, skinned and without a face. ... Read more

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Lewis Lin is a taxi driver, photographer and recent arrival from Beijing. He finds himself drawn into a deadly web of deceit, involving Sydney's Chinese underworld, after a body is found dumped in outer suburban Sydney, skinned and without a face.
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Bapo

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Nicholas Jose was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1987 to 1990, at a vital moment in China's history, and has played an important role in artistic relations between the two countries since then. The title of his new collection of stories refers to an unusual kind of Chinese painting, that tricks the eye into thinking it sees a collage of fragments. Bapo means 'eight ... Read more

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Nicholas Jose was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1987 to 1990, at a vital moment in China's history, and has played an important role in artistic relations between the two countries since then. The title of his new collection of stories refers to an unusual kind of Chinese painting, that tricks the eye into thinking it sees a collage of fragments. Bapo means 'eight
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Chinese Whispers

Cultural Essays

by Nicholas Jose ...

This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China on the writer's own work and life. Nicholas Jose is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. He was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy, Beijing, between 1987 and 1990, and has taught ... Read more

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This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China on the writer's own work and life. Nicholas Jose is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. He was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy, Beijing, between 1987 and 1990, and has taught
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The Blind Brother (Unabridged)

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This is the first book written by Homer Greene, whose primary occupation was lawyer. It tells of 14-year-old Tom Taylor, and his 12-year-old blind brother Bennie, who work in the Pennsylvania coal mines in the late 1800s, earning money for an operation for the younger lad. A story of strikes and mine "falls" along the way. ... Read more

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This is the first book written by Homer Greene, whose primary occupation was lawyer. It tells of 14-year-old Tom Taylor, and his 12-year-old blind brother Bennie, who work in the Pennsylvania coal mines in the late 1800s, earning money for an operation for the younger lad. A story of strikes and mine "falls" along the way.
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Antipodean China

Reflections on Literary Exchange

Edited by Nicholas Jose, Benjamin Madden ...

Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spoke about the places important to them, their influences and their work, resemblances emerged, and ... Read more

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Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spoke about the places important to them, their influences and their work, resemblances emerged, and
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Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Applied Data Science Track

European Conference, ECML PKDD 2021, Bilbao, Spain, September 13–17, 2021, Proceedings, Part IV

Edited by Yuxiao Dong, Nicolas Kourtellis, Barbara Hammer, Jose A. Lozano ...

Series Book 4 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The multi-volume set LNAI 12975 until 12979 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2021, which was held during September 13-17, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Bilbao, Spain, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 210 full papers presented in these ... Read more

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The multi-volume set LNAI 12975 until 12979 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2021, which was held during September 13-17, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Bilbao, Spain, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 210 full papers presented in these
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