Jamrach's Menagerie

Author: CAROL BIRCH

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Price : 23.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781921758959
Publisher : Text Publishing Company
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Weight (g) : 0.245
Publication date : September 2011
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
Produced in : Australia
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Language : English
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Description

London, 1857: after surviving an encounter with an escaped tiger on the streets of Bermondsey, nine-year-old Jaffy stumbles into a job for its owner, the wild animal collector, Mr Jamrach. Commissioned by Jamrach to find and collect a sea dragon, Jaf soon joins a ship bound for the South Seas, and so begins a wonder-filled voyage of discovery. But when things start to go awry, Jaf's journey becomes a fight for survival which will push faith, love and friendship to their outermost limits. Brilliantly written and utterly compulsive, Jamrach's Menagerie evokes the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century from the squalor of London to the islands of the South Seas.

Awards

Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 and Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the Year 2011.

Author description

Carol Birch is the author of ten previous novels including Scapegallows and Turn Again Home.