Last of the Curlews
8 best books like Last of the Curlews (Fred Bodsworth): Saint Joan, The Secret River, Winesburg, Ohio, The Jungle, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed, Surfacing, Moon of the Crusted Snow, All That Remains: A Life in Death
| Author | George Bernard Shaw |
| ISBN | 0140437916 |
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known...
| Author | Kate Grenville |
| ISBN | 1841959146 |
In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale...
| Author | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | 0192839772 |
zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not necessarily...
| Author | Upton Sinclair |
| ISBN | 1884365302 |
For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown.
When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial...
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
| Author | John Vaillant |
| ISBN | 0393328643 |
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands,...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491050 |
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where...
| Author | Waubgeshig Rice |
| ISBN | 1770414002 |
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members...
All That Remains: A Life in Death
| Author | Sue Black |
| ISBN | 0857524925 |
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All that...
