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Images in Aspic: Essays by Charmian Clift
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In 1964, after fourteen years abroad, Charmian Clift began writing a weekly newspaper column. Images in Aspic is a selection of these pieces, edited by her husband George Johnston. In it, Clift comments on a wide range of subjects, from her first reactions on coming home to reflec tions on teenagers, th ...Show more
Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus by Charmian Clift
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's in one volume. For Charmian Clift, Greece was the Promised Land. In 1954 she and her husband, George Johnston, abandoned their sophisticated London existence and set off with two new ...Show more
The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 co ...Show more
The Sponge Divers POD by Charmian Clift and George Johnston
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the eastern Mediterranean stands the rocky Greek island of Kalymnos, ten miles long by five wide. For some three thousand years its ships have put out to sea. In recent generations the men of Kalymnos have been sponge divers, then somewhere a chemist learned to make a synthetic sponge, perhaps not so ...Show more
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