C J Christopher John Koch (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. New York: WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE - SOFT COVER-MID SIZE-PRIOR OWNER NAME ON INSIDE COVERChatto & Windus, 1987. Used. Essays discuss the author's native island of Tasmania, his experiences in London in the 1950s and California in the early 1960s, and his reflections on other writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Carlos Castaneda.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE - SOFT COVER - MID SIZE Minerva, 1996 Used In the sleazy coffee bars of bohemian Sydney the Rymers were born For a generation they offered access to a world of illusion and enthralment Marrying the ancestral energies of immigrant ballads to the faeryworld of the European occult, this electric folk group seemed to embody the questing religious spirit of a decade They had the enigmatic voice of an East European refugee, the instrumental skills of a vagrant country singer, the inspired arrangements of a self-educated Tasmanian mystic The universe was double They couldn't fail.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London:WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE - SOFT COVER - MID SIZE Vintage Books, 2003 Used In a riveting new novel of wartime Cambodia and Vietnam--part thriller, part mystery, part heroic epic--the author of The Year of Living Dangerously offers the story of a likeable, brave, but ultimately mysterious war photographer who has disappeared into the jungles of Cambodia. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE - SOFT COVER - LARGE SIZE.Sydney: Picador, 2002 Used Autobiographical account of an Australian novelist's return to Ireland to explore his cultural heritage While searching for relics of the 19th century, Koch highlights modern Ireland's growth into an economically successful nation as well as ongoing religious conflicts in the North This is a non-Fiction companion to his novel, 'Out of Ireland', winner of the 2000 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Koch's other works include, 'The Double Man' and 'Highways to a War', both winners of the Miles Franklin Award, and 'The Year of Living Dangerously', which won the 1978 'Age' Book of the Year, the 1979 National Book Council Award and was made into award-winning film by Peter Weir.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Sydney.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE - SOFT COVER - LARGE SIZE. NSW: Fourth Estate, 2012 Used Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great-uncle Walter - a wealthy lawyer who lives alone in a Tasmanian farmhouse passed down through the family - for help As he is drawn into Walter?s rarefied world, Hugh discovers that both his uncle and the farmhouse are links to a notorious episode in the mid nineteenth centuryWalter's father, Martin, was living in the house when it was raided by members of an outlaw community run by Lucas Wilson, a charismatic ex-soldier attempting to build a utopia But like later societies with communitarian ideals, Nowhere Valley was controlled by the gun, with Wilson as benevolent dictator Twenty-year-old Martin's sojourn in the Valley as Wilson's disciple has become an obsession with Walter Dixon: one which haunts his present and keeps the past tantalizingly closeAs Walter encourages Hugh's ambition to become an artist, and again comes to his aid when one of Hugh's friends is charged with murder, the way life's patterns repeat themselves from one generation to another becomes eerily apparentDramatic, insightful and evocative, Lost Voices is an intriguing double narrative that confirms Koch as one of our most significant and compelling novelists.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE - SOFT COVER - LARGE SIZE. Vincent Austin and Erika Lange dream of becoming spies Vincent is recruited by ASIS His friend, Bradley and Erika join the Foreign Affairs Vincent attempts an espionage coup which ends in disaster for himself and Bradley Both are expelled The fantasies of youth have now become a reality for Erica and Vincent, but they lead to a tragic climax.…

Softcover in Dustjacket. Condition: Fine. TRAVEL ART West Australiana -Poetry from Hasluck and prose from Kock, the Australians had been invited to travel in China shortly after China's borders became officially open once again in 1981.First Edition. 51 p. : ill., 2 ports. ; 22 x 28 cm. #160725 Signed by Author. Koch, C. J. (Christopher J.), 1932-2013 -- Travel -- China Novelists, Australian -- 20th century -- Travel -- China China -- Literary collections China -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel -- Poetry Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…