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0907871038 03 02 0907871038 03 9780907871033 15 9780907871033 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871038.htm 1 A01 Wynd, Oswald 312 FA 02 In 1903 Mary Mackenzie sails for China to marry the British Military Attache, a man who turns out to be every bit as chilly as the Peking Winter. During one of his many absences, Mary has an affair with a Japanese soldier, Count Kurihama, but her pregnancy is impossible to keep secret. Rejected by husband, mother and country, and forced to leave her daughter behind, Mary flees to Japan. The Ginger Tree tells the fascinating story of her survival, isolated and alone, in this alien culture. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20030425 UNIREPS 02 21 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20030425 0907871771 03 02 0907871771 03 9780907871774 15 9780907871774 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871771.htm 1 A01 Gellhorn, Martha 296 WTL 02 Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist and an ironic black humour, what makes these tales irresistible are Gellhorns explosive and often surprising reactions. Indignant, but never righteous and not always right, through the crucible of hell on earth emerges a woman who makes you laugh with her at life, while thanking God that you are not with her. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20020731 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20020731 0907871720 03 02 0907871720 03 9780907871729 15 9780907871729 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871720.htm 1 A01 Lewis, Norman 192 WTL 02 Norman Lewis arrives in war-torn Naples as an intelligence officer in 1944. The starving population has devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium, respectable women have been driven to prostitution and the black market is king. Lewis finds little to admire in his fellow soldiers, but gains sustenance from the extraordinary vivacity of the Italians. There is the lawyer who earns his living bringing a touch of Roman class to funerals, the gynaecologist who "specializes in the restoration of lost virginity" and the widowed housewife who times her British lover against the clock. "Were I given the chance to be born again," writes Lewis, "Italy would be the country of my choice." Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20020731 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20020731 0907871828 03 02 0907871828 03 9780907871828 15 9780907871828 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871828.htm 1 A01 Orga, Ifran 332 BG 02 Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a harem, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother was an eccentric autocrat, determined at all costs to maintain her traditional habits. But the First World War changed everything. Death and financial disaster reigned, the Sultan was overthrown and Turkey became a republic. The family was forced to adapt to an unimaginably impoverished life. In 1941 Irfan Orga arrived in London, and seven years later he wrote this extraordinary story of his familys survival. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20020731 UNIREPS 02 21 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20020731 0907871089 03 02 0907871089 03 9780907871088 15 9780907871088 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871089.htm 1 A01 Mayne, Peter 192 WTL 02 Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to live in the back streets of Marrakesh in the 1950s. Rather than watch from the shelter of a hotel terrace, he rented rooms, learned the language, made friends, and became embroiled in conspiratorial picnics, hashish-laced dinners and in the enchantments and misunderstandings of the street, with its festivals, love affairs, potions and gossip. By turns used, abused and cherished by his neighbours, Mayne wrote their letters for them and captured the essence of their lives in this affectionate and hilarious account. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20021030 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20021030 0907871143 03 02 0907871143 03 9780907871149 15 9780907871149 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871143.htm 1 A01 Maxwell, Gavin 320 HBJH 02 Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords of the Atlas tells the extraordinary story of the Madani and Thami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century. Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary Indian princes, and ruled with a mixture of flamboyance and terror. On returning from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, Thami ordered the severed heads of his enemies to be mounted on his gates. Yet in 1956, when the French left Morocco, the Glaoua regime toppled like a pack of cards. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20040924 UNIREPS 02 21 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20040924 0907871798 03 02 0907871798 03 9780907871798 15 9780907871798 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871798.htm 1 A01 Bedford, Sybille 368 C 02 This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German chteau for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera. Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education intellectual, emotional and sexual continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20050601 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20050601 0907871623 03 02 0907871623 03 9780907871620 15 9780907871620 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871623.htm 1 A01 Churchill, Winston 388 BG 02 The first twenty-five years of Churchills life were full of adventure: night marches, cavalry charges, skirmishes on the North West Frontier, escape from a Boer prison camp and a visit to the Cuban War. Acknowledged as his best book, his zest for life bursts right off the pages of My Early Life. Yet this is more than just an adventure story. It is an elegiac portrayal of the halcyon period before the First World War, and deeply revealing of one of the dominating personalities of the twentieth century. Here lie the roots of that restless, questing energy and dauntless ambition, born of absent parents and miserable schooling. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20021030 UNIREPS 02 21 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20021030 090787133X 03 02 090787133X 03 9780907871330 15 9780907871330 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/090787133X.htm 1 A01 Lewis, Norman 336 WTL 02 Travelling through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the twilight of the French colonial regime, Norman Lewis witnesses these ancient civilisations as they were before the terrible devastation of the Vietnam War. He creates a portrait of traditional societies struggling to retain their integrity in the embrace of the West. He meets emperors and slaves, brutal plantation owners and sympathetic French officers trapped by the economic imperatives of the colonial experiment. From tribal animists to Viet-Minh guerillas, he witnesses this heart-breaking struggle over and over, leaving a vital portrait of a society on the brink of catastrophic change. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20030829 UNIREPS 02 21 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20030829 0907871887 03 02 0907871887 03 9780907871880 15 9780907871880 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/0907871887.htm 1 A01 Parkes, Fanny 400 WTLC 02 Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated by everything, from the trial of the thugs and the efficacy of opium on headaches to the adorning of a Hindu bride. To read her is to get as close as one can to a true picture of early colonial India - the sacred and the profane, the violent and the beautiful, the straight-laced sahibs and the more eccentric "White Mughals" who fell in love with India and did their best, like Fanny, to build bridges across cultures. Eland Books 01 Eland Books 04 20021129 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20021129