Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey is the starting point for a book that also describes travels through Vietnam, mountains in the Chinese Himalaya, lost cities of the Silk Road, mist-swathed cemeteries in Japan and the flat plains of Australia.

A Saigon, Joseph, giovane reporter australiano, si guadagna da vivere scrivendo articoli, e soprattutto ricattando politici e uomini d'affari con fotografie compromettenti. Mentre sta seguendo il caso di una ragazza trovata morta sulle rive del fiume, viene avvicinato da un uomo che gli parla del Club 49 e della "piccola stanza oscura" in cui ha visto una bellissima donna dagli occhi color nocciola coperta di ferite. Joseph si lancia subito nelle indagini, non solo per scoprire ciò che di ...

Dopo dieci anni trascorsi in Giappone, Cina e Vietnam, Patrick Holland ci racconta le storie di un occidentale alle prese con la complessità dell'Oriente. Un viaggio, quello di Holland, che attraversa la regione giapponese del Kansai – da Osaka all'area sacra dell'Oku-no-in – e continua nello Yunnan cinese e nelle città vietnamite di Saigon e La Vang. Come la sinuosa Muraglia cinese, i racconti si snodano uno dopo l'altro, dando voce ai luoghi e alla gente che li abita, disseminati di cita...

'Before nightfall I rode a taxi through Narita. Neon-lit restaurants and bars and dark cypress. The snow and a wind from the Sea of Japan had all but cleared the streets. Cedar temples sat beneath grey skies. Vending machines lit the wet and empty paths to their gates. I told the driver to go on to the city.'Lyrical and atmospheric. As the influence of the West falls away, an unnamed narrator drifts through the East's floating world of non-places - chain hotels, airports, ...

'The darkest little room in the world is the human heart,' she said at last. 'Even yours, perhaps, has black secrets that you would never let into the light.'Patrick's Holland's haunting new novel arises from his experiences in Indochina. An atmospheric literary thriller, it tells the story of Joseph, an Australian journalist living in Saigon who, shortly after reporting on a murdered girl washed up in Saigon River, is approached by a foreign businessman describing a brothel known ...

Questa raccolta segue le tracce degli esuli attraverso gli inferni terrestri e i purgatori della modernità. In ogni storia c'è un contatto sensoriale con luce e suono, unito al bisogno di segni semplici e puri che diano un senso alla vita nel XXI secolo. “La città perduta in paradiso” fa rivivere i miracle plays nell'improbabile scenario di Pechino, contrapponendo la quiete della neve e i sussurri della tradizione al rumore del progresso. “Integrità” descrive un luogo desolato nel...

The last bushrangers in Australian history, James and Patrick Kenniff, were at the height at their horse thieving operation at turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains of Western Queensland the brothers know the terrain too well, and the locals are sympathetic to their escapades. When a policeman and a station manager go out on patrol from tiny Upper Warrego Station and disappear, Sergeant Nixon makes it his mission to purs...

**Shortlisted for The Age Book of the YearLonglisted for the Miles Franklin Literary AwardA heart-rending and suspenseful story of siblings whose relationship with their world, and each other, is put to the ultimate test**Grey's mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and he prays that she will be returned to him so he might protect her from the world as his father did not. This prayer, Grey believes, is answered in his sister Irene. He becomes obsessed...

Vijf broers, uiteengedreven in hun jeugd, maar weer bij elkaar gebracht door de liefde... Deel 4 Tot haar schrik ziet lerares Alice Newberry een van de leerlingetjes uit haar kleuterklas van een aanlegsteiger vallen en kopje-onder gaan. Gelukkig is er een stoere visser in de buurt, die er meteen achteraan duikt. Eerst herkent ze deze redder in de nood niet, maar dan realiseert ze zich dat de aantrekkelijke brompot niemand minder is dan Patrick Devaney, die ze nog kent van de middelbare sch...

INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.'In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote ...

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showin...

In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary.It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs...