John Gardiner

• Nov-2008
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Welcome to the turbulent, emotion-packed sixties as you’ve never experienced them before. In author John Gardiner’s groundbreaking and entertaining novel WHAAM! a cast of multidimensional, vivid characters live through 1968, 1969 and 1970, journe...

• May-2009
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Calling upon language and metaphor so rich in talent as to be nearly unrivaled among today’s writers of literary fiction, John Gardiner gives us Tapestries, a novel that weaves threads of love, transformation, awakening, and passion. As if possessi...

• Jan-2010
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Exiles is a novel whose powerfully evocative and headily descriptive language fashions a timeline of our cultural experiences through the Glam-era years of 1971, 1972 and 1973.Using language explosive with poetry, quantum physics, surrealism and musi...

• Oct-2010
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Imaginatively patterned against a mosaic of failed romances, the eponymous Actor stands watching his lovers walk away, haunted by his inversion of the famous line from "As You Like It": Whoever lov'd who lov'd not at last sight? Characterized by evoc...

• Jun-2011
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1984! George Orwell's bleak vision portrayed in his famous novel titled 1984, and the world he envisioned therein, is dissolved through the power of comedy. Portraits lays down an imaginative mosaic of the time demonstrating through the creative imag...

• Jun-2011
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1984! George Orwell's bleak vision portrayed in his famous novel titled 1984, and the world he envisioned therein, is dissolved through the power of comedy. Portraits lays down an imaginative mosaic of the time demonstrating through the creative imag...

• Dec-2011
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Cast in a prose style fluid as the frames of a movie, this novel explores and projects onto the screen of the page remembered glories from the Greek Myths, embodied in dramatis personae living in the late-twentieth century. The Spirit of Antiquity ha...

• Jan-2013
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Now I am alone! Man à la Mode finds the central character self-reflecting upon and self-communing with memories of 40 years of marriage which have suddenly ended in crisis as he travels to and through Greece. Overshadowing him as he evokes the class...

• Jan-2014
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Continuing the Open-Ended Novel began with WHAAM!, followed by Exiles, Siren moves the dramatis personae through the years 1974, 1975 and 1976. The arrow of time moves forward, pop culture styles metamorphose, political transformations occur, requiri...

• May-2016
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What is the back-story to Masques? Of medieval origin, the Masque attained its apotheosis as Courtly entertainment during the 16th and 17th Centuries, favoring allegory to flatter or disparage persons of eminence, Kings and Queens. Elaborately concei...

• Feb-2017
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Trash weaves the familiar dramatis personae from the author’s earlier sequence of novels, WHAAM!, Exiles & Siren, into the tapestry of years, 1977, 1978, and 1979. The celebrated and irresistible image and momentum of Physics’ Arrow of Time penet...

• Jun-2018
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Entablatures eponymous novelist undertakes an exploration of the conceptual implications held by the word palimpsest, using the gift of self-consciousness to place his origin within a presence he identifies as the inner thinker, the latter derivative...

• Dec-2022
• / General Fiction
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Colonnades presents as an existentially thoughtful True Romance style graphic novel (non-visual), à la 2022, with every page (frame) loaded with conflicting temporal-and-spiritual tensions the dramatis personae struggle to resolve.Being-and-Time...

• Sep-2024
• / Historical
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Most know the story of Australia’s First Fleet. But who were those convicts, sailors, marines and administrators who travelled to Botany Bay in 1787? And who orchestrated this ambitious expedition? In his meticulously researched new book, John Gard...