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In the Garden of the Fugitives

A Novel

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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In the Garden of the Fugitives

A Novel

By: Ceridwen Dovey

Originally published in 2018 by Hamish Hamiltion, an imprint of Penguin Books, Australia"--Title page verso.

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0374226644

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9780374226640

Blood Kin

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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Blood Kin

By: Ceridwen Dovey

In a military coup that overthrows a nameless nation's president, three of his servants - his barber, chef, and portraitist - are taken hostage, and their true loyalties are revealed.

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0670018562

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9780670018567

Only the Animals

Stories

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century, and connected to both famous and little-known writers in surprising ways, tell their astonishing stories of life and death"--

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257

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Macmillan

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0374226636

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9780374226633

Mothertongues

By: Ceridwen Dovey,Eliza Bell

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Mothertongues

By: Ceridwen Dovey,Eliza Bell

After sharing their artistic frustrations at the school gate, two women decide to take a risk- to co-write a book about early motherhood. Off-colour, offbeat, off their heads, they begin - but then, what is motherhood if not messy, non-linear, multi-authored and potty mouthed? Together they gather scenes and songs, poems and text messages, insights and ephemera, alive to both the playfulness and the danger of co-creation. From the salvaged scraps of their daily lives they make an intimate collage of absurd mothering, failing mothering and moving mothering, imagining themselves into a future where women don't always have to choose between art and motherhood. After all- these mothers are tired. They are busy. They are lucky. They talk. Perform. Categorise. Clown. They do sad dinner cabaret. They do heroic odyssey. They do motherhood the musical. No bells and whistles, no false cheer. They do it badly, they do it well, they do it and they do it, and they keep on doing it as women do- comically, communally, creatively. Funny, thoughtful, vulnerable and disturbingly familiar, Mothertongues up-ends ideas of genre and speaks motherhood anew.

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1761043552

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9781761043550

Only the Astronauts

The transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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Only the Astronauts

The transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals

By: Ceridwen Dovey

‘Ceridwen Dovey has a rare, wild genius. The stories in Only the Astronauts are extraordinary, funny, delightful and moving. Dovey sees tenderly what it is to be human – from a perspective that is out-of-this-world imaginative.’ Anna Funder Adrift in outer space, a motley crew of human-made objects tell their tales, making real history sweeter and stranger. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, awaiting deorbit and burial in a spacecraft cemetery beneath the ocean, farewells its last astronauts. A team of tamponauts sets off on a perilous mission to Mars inspired by the courage of their predecessors. The Voyager 1 space probe – carrying its precious Golden Record – is captured by Oortians near the edge of the solar system and drawn into their baroque, glimmering rituals. By turns joyous and mournful, these object-astronauts are not high priests of the universe but something a little . . . weirder. From their inverted perspectives, they observe humans both intimately and from a great distance, bearing witness to a civilisation unable to live up to its own ideals. And yet each still finds in our planet – in their humans – something worthy of love. PRAISE FOR CERIDWEN DOVEY’S ONLY THE ANIMALS 'Transmitted to us with a light touch and no trace of sentimentality.' J.M. Coetzee 'Wholly extraordinary.' Michelle de Kretser 'A fable-like surface, and a whole churning world beneath.' The Guardian 'A form of lyrical anthropology.' Canberra Times 'Anarchic brilliance.' The Age

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179

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Penguin Group Australia

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1760145173

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9781760145170

On J. M. Coetzee

Writers on Writers

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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On J. M. Coetzee

Writers on Writers

By: Ceridwen Dovey

‘I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had declared a state of emergency in the face of growing internal revolt, and my parents were thinking of leaving South Africa again.’ For Ceridwen Dovey, J.M. Coetzee has ‘always been there’, ‘challenging the rest of us to keep up, resisting our attempts to pin him down.’ Her mother wrote the first critical study of Coetzee’s early novels, uncovering their startlingly original ways of bringing together literature and politics. With tenderness and insight, Dovey draws on this family history to explore the Nobel Prize–winner’s work.

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Black Inc.

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1743820658

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9781743820650

Inner Worlds Outer Spaces

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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Inner Worlds Outer Spaces

By: Ceridwen Dovey

What does it feel like to be passionate about your daily work? How do people find their way into fascinating, unusually fulfilling careers, even against the odds? Space lawyers and bibliotherapists; euthanasia activists and women's rugby champions; shark experts and solar power visionaries; a master perfumer and a moon dust maven, among many others. What all of these people have in common is the courage to pursue their dreams and obsessions, no matter how niche or particular, and transform them into their life's work. In the process, they've enacted lasting change in the world around them. Delving into the working lives of others for publications as diverse as newyorker.com, The Monthly and WIRED, Ceridwen Dovey's inquisitive, thoughtful approach has allowed her to explore fields of knowledge and expertise that are often inaccessible to outsiders. The resulting profiles are a celebration of the extraordinary and meaningful work done by those on paths less travelled.

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290

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Random House Australia

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1760895385

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9781760895389

Blood Kin

A Novel

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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Blood Kin

A Novel

By: Ceridwen Dovey

Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two prestigious awards, this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country, with characters who have no names or any identifying physical characteristics. Known simply as the ex-President's chef, barber, and portrait painter, these three men perform their mundane tasks and appear unaware of the atrocities of their employer's regime. But when the President is deposed, the trio are revealed as less than innocent. A deeply chilling yet sensual novel, Blood Kin illustrates Lord Acton's famous quip, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," and marks the beginning of an illustrious literary career.

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Penguin

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1101202734

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9781101202739

Only the Animals

Stories

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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Only the Animals

Stories

By: Ceridwen Dovey

Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and connected to both famous and little-known writers in surprising ways tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench on the Western Front, a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany, a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. During the Siege of Sarajevo, a starving bear tells a fairy tale. And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the U.S. Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath. Exquisitely written, playful, and poignant, Ceridwen Dovey's Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by one of our brightest young writers. An animal's-eye-view of humans at our brutal, violent worst and our creative, imaginative best, it asks us to find our way back to empathy not only for animals but for other people, and to believe again in the redemptive power of reading and writing fiction.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374713065

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9780374713065

In the Garden of the Fugitives

A Novel

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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A Novel

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Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protégées. Now Royce is ailing and Vita’s career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for wanting to settle accounts. They enter into an intimate game of words, played according to shifting rules of engagement. Beyond their murky shared history, they are both aware they can use each other to free themselves from deeper pasts. Vita is processing the shameful inheritance of her birthplace, and making sense of the disappearance of her beloved. Royce is haunted by memories of the untimely death of his first love, an archaeologist who worked in the Garden of the Fugitives in Pompeii. Between what’s been repressed and what has been disguised are disturbances that reach back through decades, even centuries. But not everything from the past is precious: each gorgeous age is built around a core of rottenness. Profoundly addictive and unsettling, In the Garden of the Fugitives is a masterful novel of duplicity and counterplay, as brilliantly illuminating as it is surprising—about the obscure workings of guilt in the human psyche, the compulsion to create and control, and the dangerous morphing of desire into obsession.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374713073

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9780374713072

On J. M. Coetzee

Writers on Writers

By: Ceridwen Dovey

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Writers on Writers

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In the Garden of the Fugitives

In the Garden of the Fugitives

Blood Kin

Blood Kin

Only the Animals

Only the Animals

Mothertongues

Mothertongues

Only the Astronauts

Only the Astronauts

On J. M. Coetzee

On J. M. Coetzee

Inner Worlds Outer Spaces

Inner Worlds Outer Spaces

Blood Kin

Blood Kin

Only the Animals

Only the Animals

In the Garden of the Fugitives

In the Garden of the Fugitives

On J. M. Coetzee

On J. M. Coetzee

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