Cambridge is a powerful & haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade & the emancipation ...

Cambridge is a powerful & haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade & the emancipation ...

How does it feel to discover you don't know who you really are?

Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's

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How does it feel to discover you don't know who you really are?

Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's

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On her uncle Jacob's death Johanna discovers a mysterious box of photographs amongst his belongings. Inspired to investigate Jacob's early life in London, where he trained as a photographer, she uncovers a macabre history laced with scandal. In 1905, Jacob is apprenticed to Herbert Burrows who photographs the s-ances of the Theosophist Society. Among the members of the society is Reverend Charles Leadbetter, who also employs Burrows for altogether more sinister task. Intrigued by the possibilities of photography, Leadbetter secretly uses young children in experiments to capture the soul on film as it leaves the body. When Leadbetter's scheme is discovered it leads to further deceit & murder- The true story is gradually pieced together from Johanna's research & Jacob's own account, leading to a chilling discovery in the Thames- ...

Examining the themes of presence & absence, the relationship between photography & theatre, history & death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. ...

A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban father perches in his son's tree house to spy on his friends. A dentist recognises his estranged wife in a famous painting. ' The Seduction of My Sister' tells of the increasingly bizarre events involving a boy & his sister when a new family moves in across the street. & in ' Camouflage', Eric Banerjee, an unassuming Adelaide piano tuner, is sent north to the centre of Australia in 1943 to make his contribution to the war effort. It is clear in all these remarkable stories that Murray Bail
- already celebrated for his novels
- has also extended the manifold possibilities of short fiction. Each of his stories creates a strange & fascinating new world, & none of them is easily forgotten. Bail's work in this collection is deft, angular, & very entertaining; the mastery of his art is fully revealed with wry humour & haunting power.

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A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban father perches in his son's tree house to spy on his friends. A dentist recognises his estranged wife in a famous painting. ' The Seduction of My Sister' tells of the increasingly bizarre events involving a boy & his sister when a new family moves in across the street. & in ' Camouflage', Eric Banerjee, an unassuming Adelaide piano tuner, is sent north to the centre of Australia in 1943 to make his contribution to the war effort. It is clear in all these remarkable stories that Murray Bail
- already celebrated for his novels
- has also extended the manifold possibilities of short fiction. Each of his stories creates a strange & fascinating new world, & none of them is easily forgotten. Bail's work in this collection is deft, angular, & very entertaining; the mastery of his art is fully revealed with wry humour & haunting power.

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