Martin Boyd

• Dec-2021
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• Jul-2014
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The last novel in Martin Boyd's celebrated Langton Quartet, which includes The Cardboard Crown, A Difficult Young Man and Outbreak of Love. At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in ...

• Mar-2014
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Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956. Introduction by Sonya Hartnett. ‘Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it. When he is sixty he wants to creep back to the ...

• Dec-1993
• / General Fiction
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Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast that hard could break a tooth. When Diana goes to Melbourne to have the tooth fixed, Wolfie is far too concerned with finding inspiration for his musical compositions to realise the chain of event...

• Oct-1993
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Set around Melbourne and in England at the turn of the 19th century, this book tells the story of Dominic, grandson of Alice and Austin, and older brother of the narrator, Guy Langton. Intense, proud and handsome, Dominic is considered eccentric by t...

• Dec-1986
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• Apr-1986
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• Mar-1986
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In "The cardboard crown" Mr Boyd returns to the theme of Lucinda Brayford. It is the story of an Australian woman of the last century whose need for the traditional civilisation of Europe draws her from her own country. Yet this continual attraction ...

• Nov-1985
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...