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The Vietnam War was a regional conflict that turned into an epic confrontation between ideologies, leaving deep scars on the psyches of nations that fought and long-lasting physical damage to Vietn

The travel writing of celebrated writer George Fetherling is filled with vivid prose and bizarre characters.

A travel narrative written over the course of ten years, One Russia, Two Chinas is about change and resistance to change in the postmodern world.

The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies.

Follow George Fetherling as he travels through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia looking for any remaining traces of the Indochina that was.

At a turning point in his life, George Fetherling embarked on an adventure to sail round the world on one of the last of the tramp freighters.

Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garners best, most ambitious novel.

Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage.

The Maloneys live in a small town in Australia. They are a fifth-generation struggling Australian family of Irish Catholic descent. A strong mother, father broken by war, three boys and two girls.

See how it rises silver from the water, the moon over the Night Country. It is here you can come whenever you are sad, or frightened.

A collection of the best of the author's columns from the "Australian" newspaper.

Ikey, his brothel mistress wife Hannah and Mary his sometime mistress, are transported to Van Dieman's Land where the two women raise separate families.

A novel of a small boy's triumph over cruelty and loneliness. Set in the turbulent 1940's in Southern Africa. An epic of survival in the best of dramatic traditions.

Story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom grow rich and powerful but never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other.

Sequel to "The power of one", continuing the story of Peekay, who is trying to cope with an Oxford education, and introducing a beautiful new heroine, Tandia, who struggles against brutal