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Five bells is a brilliant work, both explicitly australian and insistently cosmopolitanand establishes gail jones as one of australias finest authors. Jones desire to get under the skin of different cultures is admirable, as is her highlighting of an important period in chinas recent past, but the resulting character is a little too orientalised by her western. In her novel, five bells 2011, gail jones depicts the australian. First published 1996 by picador this edition published 1997 by picador. Although a t jones is not considered an sda pioneer nevertheless his work is import enough to give it a place here. Bridget joness diary by helen fielding overdrive rakuten. As the title suggests, the book is a somewhat lyric diary, relating with wit and sincerity of a young single english woman, who tries to become a selfmade person.
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