Results for: books tagged ‘Wilderness’
Homeland: Barbara Kingsolver
Over landscapes ranging from northern California and the urban Southwest to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia, Barbara Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary ... More
When They Lay Bare: Andrew Greig
This novel of obsession, passion and death occupies the borderlands between the supernatural novels of Scott, Hogg and Stevenson, and the psychological novels of Rendall and Highsmith.An unknown woman walks ... More
The Hunter: Julia Leigh
The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. The ... More
The Other Side of Eden: Hugh Brody
Hugh Brody has an international reputation as an anthropologist and documentary film-maker of the Inuit peoples. This book is a marvellous account of hunter-gatherer culture, gleaned from years of living ... More
The Return of John Macnab: Andrew Greig
An adventure, a poacher's handbook, a romance and a moving story of loss and renewal.When three friends decide to revive the challenge of the legendary poacher John Macnab (to take ... More
Provinces of Night: William Gay
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after twenty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on ... More
The Long Home: William Gay
In The Long Home, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to an evil that is greater ... More
Ink Stone: Jamie McKendrick
The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, ... More
Girl in Landscape: Jonathan Lethem
Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers ... More
The Ice Soldier: Paul Watkins
The Ice Soldier is an action-packed adventure story set in Britain and the Alps in the aftermath of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world are focused ... More
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