Hay Trevor (75 results)

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Paperback periodical: Vol. 23, No. 71. Edited by Kyril Bonfiglioli. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Editorial"; "Man in His Time" by Brian Aldiss; "The War at Foxhanger" by Keith Roberts; "The Chicken Switch" by Elleston Trevor; "Susan" by Alistair Bevan; "The Excursion" by B. N. Ball; "Over and Out" by George Hay; "Hunt a Wild Dream" by D. R. Heywood. Tanned; creasing; lean. Book.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Black Ice: A Story of Modern China This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Dream of Tartary. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Man Who Loved Dragons. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Tom Harley, retired professor and historian of Central Asia, Tibet and China, succumbs to a late-afternoon dream but his dream is hijacked by 'ghost-writers', two visitors from the other side, not of life itself, but of his own mind. In order to distract Tom from his usual regrets and obsessions, the visitors construct a 'play for voices', excerpts from Tom's collection of travels in 'Tartary', but they are unable to decide on a f inal meaning for the play until inspired by a combination of a fourth-century Chinese calligraphy and Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood. Ultimately they leave a message for Tom from the realm of poetry and wine, but will he find it.…

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Reading creasing, edge rubbing and a little chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. Price label over the original price at the top right corner of the front cover. Browning to the white areas of the covers with some discolouration to the covers and a small surface chip near the bottom right corner of the back cover. Initials in pen to the first page. Light staining to the page edges and browning to pages Contains 'Man in His Time' by Aldiss, 'The War at Foxhanger' by Roberts, 'The Chicken Switch' by Trevor, 'Susan' by Bevan (Keith Roberts), 'The Excursion' by Ball, 'Over and Out' by Hay, 'Hunt a Wild Dream' by Heywood and an editorial by Bonfiglioli. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The author explores his China curios, some tangible, like opium pipes and cricket 'palaces', some intangible, like memories and dreams. His 'cabinet of curiosities' contains a whole anthology of strange tales; of the erotic adventures of the 'Old Buddha' Empress Dowager, of two extraordinary foreign hermits in China, of murder and mystery in the 'Badlands' of Beijing and the demi-monde of Chinese theatre and of poignant ruins that serve both as witnesses to the tragedy of past East-West encounters and as potential sources of future understanding. …

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Spine lean with a faint reading crease and there is slight warping to the front cover next to the spine. Browning to the page edges with a little spotting to the top edges and some browning to pages which are otherwise unmarked. Contains 'Man in His Time' by Aldiss, 'The War at Foxhanger' by Roberts, 'The Chicken Switch' by Trevor, 'Susan' by Bevan (Keith Roberts), 'The Excursion' by Ball, 'Over and Out' by Hay, 'Hunt a Wild Dream' by Heywood and an editorial by Bonfiglioli. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

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Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Trevor Hay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 342 In 2019 Roy, a retired librarian living alone in dwindling bushland on the outskirts of Melbourne, is lured out of his shell by his neighbours, two migrant Chinese families who run a motel and restaurant. With other neighbours and guests, they get together regularly for Friday Chinese banquets, retiring for after-dinner ghost stories to an old Presbyterian church among the gums behind the restaurant - 'The Temple of Ordinary Terrors'. He records the passage of the year in a journal that includes notes from his intercultural story-telling group. He finds that mortals, and even some part-human, part-goblin beings, like the Japanese tengu, inhabit a zone somewhere between the terrors of the supernatural world, depicted in literature and art, and the 'ordinary' terrors of the natural, 'real' world. In the process Roy finds a special friend and ultimately exorcises the ghost of his own loneliness, which he has been inclined to idealise as solitude. Paperback.…

153pp. Paperback. "Crystal, born in Nepal in tragic circumstances, comes to live with distant relatives in her own 'Shangri-La' by the Diamond Creek, on the outskirts of Melbourne. In a fabulous landscape of imaginings, where she learns both to confront horror and cherish mystery, she discovers ultimately that when the darkest of fears meets the brightest of hopes, it creates a rare kind of rainbow." (Publisher's description).…

207pp. Paperback. "'One of my Buddhism for dummies books says there are three fires to be avoided at all costs - desire, anger and delusion. I think my greatest desire - and delusion - is to see a meaning in the events that have taken place in my life. There have been three occasions I can think of when I felt the siren call of Meaning, when I was convinced that things had happened as they were meant to - and each time I got it wrong.' In solitude, in a hotel in China, a man writes to a close friend, trying to identify themes in his life and relationships, revealed in the memory of sometimes funny, sometimes traumatic incidents and episodes. Intermittently he also writes of his present days in China, of the shifting persona he has adopted in order to lead a 'floating life' between worlds and identities." (Publisher's description).…

Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Trevor Hay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Restless China scholar Rubert Robinson leaves the refuge of his studio in Montsalvat artists' colony in outer Melbourne and embarks upon travels with Xiaorong, his former student, in order to discover and illuminate fragments of the age-old encounter between China and the West. During their quest through old and new worlds they discover a parallel realm of fascination, misunderstanding, pain and delight - all within their own relationship. Like other cultural voyagers before them, they find both sanctuary and exile within a landscape of ever shifting perspectives. Paperback.…