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Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round-the-world voyage has made her the toast of Britain and the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental group. Gerald pines ...Show more
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fig ...Show more
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
In 1945, Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, and intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a f ...Show more
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Just what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? In this book, the author fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - ...Show more
Loving Monsters by James Hamilton-Paterson
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A chance encounter in a local store leads a writer to undertake to record the life of his neighbour, the enigmatic Raymond Jerningham Jebb; 'Jayjay' to his friends, self-styled impostor and lover. From the terrace of his Tuscan villa Jayjay offers him a biographer's dream: a no-holds barred account of a ...Show more
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The hero of this black farce of a book is Gerald Samper, a ghostwriter to unbearable sports celebrities and rock stars, whose dream is to write the libretto of an opera.After an unsuccessful sojourn in Suffolk that ends in the accidental death of an ancient aristocrat, Gerry returns to Tuscany to the si ...Show more
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Gerald Samper is not a lucky man. Ghost writer of terrible celebrity memoirs and lethally bad cook, he now watches as his beloved house falls off a hill in Tuscany. But he and his guests have been saved from certain death by an apparition - in the form of a certain deceased English princess with great l ...Show more
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds by James Hamilton-Paterson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully written blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition which includes the acclaimed essay 'Sea Burial'. Hamilton-Paterson writes about fishing, piracy, ecological ...Show more
Under the Radar: A Novel by James Hamilton-Paterson
$27.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable, the great delta-winged machines are also equipped with state of the art electronic warfare devices that jam American radar systems. Evading the fighters scra ...Show more
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