6 Ergebnisse.

The Manifold family has run its course and is destined for self destruction. That is until it is saved in the nick of time by the unexpected event of the unacknowledged birth of twin girls who against all the odds accidentally restart the clan for succeeding generations. The seventy year epic is narrated by Eric who is no blood connection of the family but from the age of five has been entangled in their web.

A small group of pre-retirement academic Defectors from the Legion of Mary search for an alternative to the inevitable retirement village. With unlikely help from a bishop and a typist, two of them choose a Zen hermitage, while the others do the usual - Nothing!

Johnny Crossbow an aged has-been on the pop music scene in San Francisco for the last forty years, tells his colleagues after a jazz session one Sunday night of three events in the life of his cousin back in Australia in the 60s. Shorty the drummer is set on getting Johnny to write a book about it and he undertakes to get it published. Flattered, Johnny sets out to put down on paper what he can dredge up from an addled mind. The San Francisco ...

An innocent boy from rural and remote Australia is sent away at nine for his education at the hands of the Jesuits. The memoir is set in 60s in Melbourne and describes his progressive ruination at their hands. This is an unusual 'autobiography' in that the subject dies.

Four stories centring upon the relationship between two women. Each is self contained though, as it hapens, two of the pairs live in the same appartment building in Paris. Two old friends in Paris. An elderly aunt and her elderly niece in Paris. A mother and daughter in Kalgoolie and Marseilles. Two elderly girlfriends in Cyprus.

A forty something Englishman simultaneously runs out of steam and inherits an unexpected fortune from his parents, moves to France to set up a farm and then find a 'son' to work it. In the setting up tangle a manger is employed whose wife causes nothing but trouble. She brings her gruesome relatives to live with the manager and her on the farm. Patrick Dengate is looking for a 'son' and in his place finds himself with five demobbed French Fore...