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1	The English Patient more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Set during the end of World War II, this novel explores the lives of four very disparate people who find themselves holed up together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. Michael Ondaatje is the author of "Running in the Family" and "In the Skin of a Lion". see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Coming Through Slaughter more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Based on the life of cornet playing Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of the turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly a novel, this book is also a documentary recreation of Bolden's life, expressed through a collage of fragmented memoirs. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Anil's Ghost more books like this by Michael Ondaatje A novel by the Booker Prize-Winning author of "The English Patient". The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Divisadero more books like this by Michael Ondaatje From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their ... see all copies from £2.69! new only from £7.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Running in the Family more books like this by Michael Ondaatje In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal, and to reconstruct the carefree ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £7.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	In the Skin of a Lion more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear ... see all copies from £4.11! new only from £7.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Collected Works of Billy the Kid more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own fund of imagination and empathy, Ondaajte traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Handwriting more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Exquisitely crafted, these are poems about love, history and landscape that transport us with breathtaking imagery to the poet's first home, Sri Lanka. "The way his novels are truly poetic, Ondaatje's thrilling poems often read like exquisite, unwritten Ondaatje novels" - "Independent on Sunday" ""Handwriting" explores Sri Lankan history, ... see all copies from £2.54! new only from £7.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Writer Michael Ondaatje and Academy Award-winning sound editor Walter Murch talk about how a film gets made and how a book gets written. see all copies from £9.88! new only from £12.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems more books like this by Michael Ondaatje If Michael Ondaatje's novels have the compression and power of poetry, his poems read like narratives that have been pared down to their essence. The poems that have been brought together in this electrifying volume are stylish yet endlessly surprising explorations of friendship and passion, family history and personal mythology. Spanning twenty ... see all copies from £2.06! new only from £5.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	El Paciente Ingles more books like this by Michael Ondaatje A novel about four people in an Italian villa at the end of World War II: Hana the nurse, Caravaggio the thief, Kip the Sikh, and the horribly burned English patient whose memories of love take the narrative back to the 1930s, and a different world. This is a Spanish-language version of the text. see all copies from £2.19! new only from £9.26!
12 view cover	Handwriting: Poems more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Ondaatje's book of poetry is about the kinds and uses of handwriting, and the rich potential of language in general as an expression of self. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	In Skin of a Lion more books like this by Michael Ondaatje This novel about an immigrant's surreal adventures in Toronto includes characters who reappear in Ondaatje's novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT: the orphan Hana and the thief Caravaggio. see all copies from £6.48! signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The English Patient: A Screenplay more books like this by Anthony Minghella, Michael Cndaatje, Michael Ondaatje Based on Micheal Ondaatje's international bestseller, Anthony Mighella's epic screenplay is published to coincide with the release of the Miramax film starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, and Kristen Scott Thomas. 'The English Patient' is a story of adventure, intrigue, betrayal, and love about four strangers whose diverse lives ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Story more books like this by Michael Ondaatje, David Bolduc (Illustrator) Michael Ondaatje's poems have been celebrated by readers and writers alike for containing some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. "The Story" combines Ondaatje's sensual writing with watercolor illustrations by celebrated painter David Bolduc, making a unique item. Left-hand pages contain Bolduc's art while ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-Read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission more books like this by Michael Ondaatje (Editor), Linda Spalding (Editor), Michael Redhill (Editor) The editors of Canada's Brick magazine--Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, and Linda Spalding--have assembled this collection of 74 writers celebrating little-known works of literature. Anne Carson shares her love of HANDBOOK FOR WILLIAM, composed in the 840s, and Margaret Atwood reflects on the rare early-20th-century novel DOCTOR ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.60! \| first editions
17 view cover	Tay John more books like this by Howard O'Hagan, Michael Ondaatje (Afterword by) The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths. This richly populated novel vividly depicts the ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £52.12! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Cinnamon Peeler more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Poems written between 1963 and 1990, including "A Dog in San Francisco," "The Goodnight," "King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens," and "Proust in the Waters." see all copies from £5.54! new only from £24.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
19	Rat Jelly more books like this by Michael Ondaatje see all copies from £6.29! new only from £12.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Brick Reader: Writers on Writing more books like this by Linda Spalding, Michael Ondaatje (Editor), Russell Banks (Introduction by) see all copies from £4.85! new only from £12.84! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	The collected works of Billy the Kid; left handed poems. more books like this by Michael Ondaatje Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own fund of imagination and empathy, Ondaajte traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. see all copies from £2.04! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Lost classics more books like this by Michael Ondaatje The editors of "Brick" celebrated the new century by asking contributors to the journal for essays about their favourite "lost classics": books they treasured that are now forgotten. The next issue contained 32 such essays, which led to the idea of soliciting more, and also this book. see all copies from £6.30! new only from £9.70! \| first editions
23	The Faber book of contemporary Canadian short stories more books like this by Michael Ondaatje A collection of Canadian short stories. The book includes works by Alastair Macleod, Gabrielle Roy, Wallace Stegner, George Bowering, Margaret Atwood, Sinclair Ross, Alice French, Mordecai Richler, Audrey Thomas, Sean Virgo, Sandra Birdsell, Elizabeth Smart, Alice Munro and many others. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £66.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	The Dainty Monsters more books like this by Michael Ondaatje see all copies from £16.28! new only from £28.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Brick more books like this by Michael Ondaatje (Editor), Michael Redhill (Editor), Linda Spalding (Editor) see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.88!

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