Gillian Bouras (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A Stranger Here This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pages lightly tanned, otherwise very clean and well bound with uncreased spine 5 X 8" 243 pages. When best-selling Australian author Gillian Bouras went to live in a Greek village for a few months in 1980 she never imagined she would still be there ten years later. In A Fair Exchange, she explores the upheavals and pleasures of exchanging one home for another. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. 277 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 278 pages. Deals with the complexity of finding your place in the world.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 278 pages. Deals with the complexity of finding your place in the world.

Secondhand, Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Gillian Bouras Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 She let me go and disappeared . . . without a backward glance. And I, I turned away, sick at heart, but not knowing . . . that I had said goodbye to her forever. Now I wish, as much as I have ever wished for anything . . . that I had been able to cage those precious minutes within the nets of gold I could not recognise as such. And that I had been somehow able to prolong those minutes into years. Nine years ago, at the age of fifty. Gillian Bouras's sister, Jacqui, took her own life. Here Gillian explores what went so wrong in Jacqui's life and why her family and friends could not save her. She examines their shared childhood and their growth to womanhood and independence, picking apart the different threads of their lives, seeking answers and solace. No Time For Dances is a frank, heartfelt, lyrical and compelling examination of the nature of grief and mental illness. It is also the story of a warm, delightful and fragile woman who lived much of her life in mental pain. Secondhand, Paperback.…

Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Unknown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The book titled Starting Again by the author Unknown. Paperback.…

Secondhand, Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 252 The book A Fair Exchange written by 0. Secondhand, Paperback.…

Secondhand, Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Gillian Bouras Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 247 0. Secondhand, Paperback.

Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Unknown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 174 Aphrodite, illiterate wife of a village priest, lived in her Peloponnesian village for eighty-eight years. When she was seventy-two, her Australian daughter-in-law came to visit. And unexpectedly stayed. In writing the story of Aphrodite's life, Gillian Bouras also relates her own story, that of an educated Westerner having to adjust to a woman who was so culturally different, and who was so formidable in her domestic power. As well, Gillian recounts her slow but absorbed learning of other days and other ways, so that this book is not simply Aphrodite's story, but also a counterpoint of the oral tradition and the literate one, the personal and the political, with individual village voices murmuring against the clamour of wider European events. Paperback.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Worn - Marks. First Edition. Gillian Bouras went to live in a Greek village for a few months in 1980 - she never imagined she would still be there ten years later.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Worn - Marks. First Edition.

Softcover. 1996. Reprint. A very good, clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Australian edition, VG+ in wraps. Signed by author on title page. No other inscriptions. Text clean and unmarked. Pages tanned with significant tanning also to insides of wrappers. A little shelf-wear with some creasing to front cover at fore-edge and lower corner. Spine uncreased. S12. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Three women of Greece : Artemis, an ailing matriarch who clings rigidly to the old ways, Juliet, an Englishwoman contentedly married to a Greek man, and Irene, the Australian wife of Artemis's son, who has to leave her marriage child, and a culture that will not make room for her. Irene cannot stay in Greece, neither can she properly leave, Wherever she goes a part of her is pulling in the other direction, so no country can lay claim to her, no place is truly home. . Gillian Bouras. seamlessly weaves fact and fiction to widen her view on displacement. 247P.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. A clean, straight book.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

8vo. c. 192pp. Original wrappers, a near fine copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 230 pages. Text tannedShe let me go and disappeared . . . without a backward glance. And I, I turne d away, sick at heart, but not knowing . . . that I had said goodbye to her fore ver. Now I wish, as much as I have ever wished for anything . . . that I had been able to cage those precious minutes within the nets of gold I could not rec ognise as such. And that I had been somehow able to prolong those minutes into y ears. Nine years ago, at the age of fifty. Gillian Bouras's sister, Jacqui, t ook her own life. Here Gillian explores what went so wrong in Jacqui's life and why her family and friends could not save her. She examines their shared childho od and their growth to womanhood and independence, picking apart the different t hreads of their lives, seeking answers and solace. No Time For Dances is a fr ank, heartfelt, lyrical and compelling examination of the nature of grief and me ntal illness. It is also the story of a warm, delightful and fragile woman who l ived much of her life in mental pain.…

Paperback trade, very good condition, pages lightly toned as usual, minor edgewear. 247 pp. A novel by Greek-Australian writer Gillian Bouras about three Greek women struggling with the culture shock of the migrant experience: Artemis, an ailing matriarch who clings rigidly to the old ways; Juliet, an Englishwoman contentedly married to a Greek man; and Irene, the Australian wife of Artemis's son, who has to leave her marriage child. The author seamlessly weaves fiction with fact, based on her personal experiences. …

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd printing 1991. Paperback. 20x13cm. 243 pages. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. Inscription on the inside cover "To Gee with all good wishes Gillian". Author has signed the Title-page (& dated it 1996). No other inscriptions. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref ocrt. Signed by Author(s). …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated card wraps. Some water damage . resulting in light tide mark and wrinkliness to all pages though this is not visible on the covers. Signed and dated by author to title page. Inscribed by author to inside front cover 'To Mary, With love (again) and thanks for help and support and friendship during the process of starting again. Gillian.' A good solid copy. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Verschmutzung; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. 'In 1969 we bravely organised two weddings. An Orthodox ceremony was then a legal requirement of the Greek State, but I wanted some English spoken over me as well. The first service passed in a sort of blur. Too late I realised that my squarish veil arrangement was not suited to the wearing of crowns.and I became rather confused about kissing hands and books. A short time later I walked down a familiar fleur-de-lis carpet towards a Presbyterian minister who welded familiar words and music into a brief service of blessing. It was George's turn to be confused.' Gillian Bouras is an Australian married to a Greek. From the ambiguous position of a foreign wife, she writes of life in a Greek village. Her fellow villagers fondly regard her, the migrant in their midst, as something of a curiosity. They, in turn, are the source of both her admiration and her perplexity.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Condition: gut. 1990. A Foreign Wife: An Australian Writes of the Pleasures and Perplexities of Family Life in the 'Small Quiet World' of a Greek Village In englischer Sprache. pages.