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  • Mermaid Singing

    'Clift's immersive 1950's memoirs capture the magic, and the menace of Greek island life' Daily Telegraph. In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing The result is Charmian Clift's best known and most loved books, Mermaid ... Read more

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  • Peel Me a Lotus

    'Clift's immersive 1950's memoirs capture the magic, and the menace of Greek island life' Daily Telegraph. In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing The result is Charmian Clift's best known and most loved books, Mermaid ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sea and the Stone

    A POWERFUL NOVEL OF ELEMENTAL LOVE AND FURY ON A DOOMED, ENCHANTED ISLAND WORLD….In the cradle of civilization, rocked by the waters of the blue Aegean, lies the tiny, barren island of Kalymnos. It is cloaked in antiquity and rich with the vibrant life of a proud and passionate people who have stubbornly endured the ravages of man and nature for three thousand years. And yet Kalymnos is dying, its ... Read more

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  • The End of the Morning

    The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift. ' In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped cover… ' During the years of the Great ... Read more

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  • Honour's Mimic

    A forbidden love ignites amidst the sun-drenched shores of 1950s Greece, challenging social boundaries and destinies.On a remote Greek island, Kathy, an Australian woman seeking solace, finds herself drawn to Fotis, a charismatic but ostracized sponge diver. Their intense connection defies societal expectations, setting them on a collision course with fate.As their passion deepens, they must ... Read more

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  • Sneaky Little Revolutions

    Selected essays of Charmian Clift

    'I know it's a daring suggestion, but I'll make it anyway.' Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly wove the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years in the cosmopolitan community of artists on the Greek island of Hydra. Back in Sydney, Clift ... Read more

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  • Walk to the Paradise Gardens

    Series Book 8 - Untapped
    Paradise Gardens is not the idyllic holiday escape Charles and Julia Cant imagined. It's a down-at-heel seaside town where local big man Roy and his wife tempt them to behave in ways they’ll be sure to regret…In her introduction, Nadia Wheatley asks: ‘is it a romance? A thriller? A melodrama? A tragedy? Is it a Gothic? Is it a lyrical exploration of a physical and emotional landscape? An allegory ... Read more

    $8.55 USD

  • High Valley

    Series Book 6 - Untapped
    Before their years on the Greek Island of Hydra, their well-documented friendship with celebrated singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, and their literary celebrity, Charmian Clift and George Johnston collaborated on High Valley, a mystery set in the Himalayas. It won them The Sydney Morning Herald Literary Competition in 1948, and was first published in 1949.Charmian Clift’s subsequent works include ... Read more

    $8.55 USD

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    Mermaid Singing

    Narrated by Josie Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    In 1954 Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, with children in tow, left grey post-war London for Greece.Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended.A travel writing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Peel Me a Lotus

    Narrated by Josie Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    In 1954 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post- war London for Greece. Moving first to the tiny island of Kalymnos they then settled on Hydra and stayed for almost a decade.They bought a picturesque, dilapidated house and Charmian grappled with the chaos of domestic life, the arrival of a third child and the clash of cultures. On Hydra they became the centre of ... Read more

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  • The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift

    The long-awaited award-winning biography of one of Australia's most charismatic and misunderstood writers.Charmian Clift's writing captivated readers across the nation. Her life inspired legends and fascinated thousands. Now at last here is the real story. Charmian Clift was born in Kiama, New South Wales, in 1923. In this close-knit seaside community Clift felt an outsider and rebelled against ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Country Girl

    A Memoir

    by Edna O'Brien ...
    "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public RadioWhen Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD