Search Results: Titles starting with W from Ivy Court Books

'As important as Chandler to any literary conception of L.A., it is impossible to imagine Bukowski's novels or Tom Waits's 1970s albums without the lead shown by this viciously funny baring of the soul'
THE TIMES

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003
'I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of man. He is an artist of a weight and depth that put him beyond ordinary comparisons... Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka'.
SUNDAY TIMES

'A roaring polemic of outrage against the moral and political crisis of the liberal tradition'. Guardian
'Cohen writes with a genuine passion and human sympathy about people who have experienced appalling suffering'. Evening Standard

'A tale of remarkable insight into the upsurge of Indian nationalism ... told with all the genius and compassion we have come to expect from R K Narayan'.

[Signed:
'To the Norman Halls - affectionately Russ'.
I believe this is Russell Braddon's signature]
Colonel Russell, an Australian Army volunteer, is captured by the Chinese in Malaya with seven colleagues, and is put through intensive interrogation by Major Lim, the objective being to break down Russell's resistance and persuade him to broadcast Communist propaganda to the West. He forces Russell to write about his childhood in minute detail, and from these memoirs he pieces together a character study of his captive which is brilliant in its observation.

'A witty, inspiring account of an odyssey into the frozen heart of a dying continent, sparkling with vignettes of human endurance'.
The Times

The Whole Woman offers 35 self-contained 'chapterkins' of fiery rhetoric, authoritative rhetoric, outrageous humour and broad-ranging debate ranging from Breasts and Girlpower to Mutilation, Sex and Sorrow.

WONDROUS TIMES ON THE FRONTIER is at once funny and nostalgic. - a celebration of the American Old West and its unique way of life that served as the inspiration for this acclaimed writer's lifetime of writing.
Dee Brown's most remarkable work of non-fiction since the legendary Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.