Martin Boyd: 10 books
by Martin Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956. Introduction by Sonya Hartnett.
'Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it. When he is sixty he wants to creep back to the nursery fireside, but it is no longer there.'
Handsome,...
When Blackbirds Sing
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
The last novel in Martin Boyd's celebrated Langton Quartet, which includes The Cardboard Crown, A Difficult Young Man and Outbreak of Love.
At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences...
by Martin Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Set in Australia and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, The Cardboard Crown presents an unforgettable portrait of an upper middle-class family who love both countries but are not quite at home in either.
At the centre of this scintillating and immensely readable novel...
Outbreak of Love
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and press the right button, the route is illuminated before us in electric clarity.
Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast...
by Martin Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Includes author´s voice.Teresa Jones’s dreams of flying contrast sharply with her dreary, earthbound life working as a filing-clerk in a CD store, and suffering the constant nagging of her academic parents, who are outraged at her stubborn refusal to go to college. Her best friend the popular,...
by Martin Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
A classic of Australian literature, with an introduction by Dr Brenda Niall.
It is 1949, and Guy Langton's house, like his family's fortunes, has seen better days. The wealth and social standing that his grandparent's generation enjoyed is all but gone. Only ageing uncles and half-remembered...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
Godly Love
Impediments and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities examines the theory of “Godly Love,” understood as including a vertical axis denoting the love of God and a horizontal axis involving the love of others, is at the core of a new field of research that studies how divine love influences the love of others...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...