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Indian Edition of JOAN IN INDIA

NOW AVAILABLE from

Yoda Press, New Delhi

Price: Rs 495

Distributor  :   FOUNDATION BOOKS

a division of Cambridge  University Press India Pvt Ltd  www.cambridgeindia.org

‘While writing about her cousin, Falkiner makes the last few years of the Raj come alive and reverberate. Joan in India is one of those rare books you chance upon that make you glad someone wrote them.’

—Swati Daftuar, THE HINDU TIMES, 3 December 2011

‘..a brave account…’

—Kishore Singh, BUSINESS STANDARD, New Delhi, 28 December 2011

‘This one time, go ahead, judge a book by its cover.’

—Anindita Ghose, Livemint.com & THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

NOW AVAILABLE

THE IMAGO: E.L. GRANT WATSON & AUSTRALIA

UWA Publishing

University of Western Australia

1 February 2011

ISBN 9781921401558

502 pp, PB 234 x 153mm

Literary biography, Western Australian history, Aboriginal history, Anthropological history

Price: AUD$49.95

In 1910 a young Cambridge-trained biologist, Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, arrived in Perth to join the controversial anthropologist A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Daisy Bates on an ethnological expedition into Aboriginal Australia, including the Lock Hospitals of Shark Bay.

The experience changed his life. On his return to England he decided to become a writer.

The Imago: E.L. Grant Watson @ Australia

The camp on Bernier Island, Shark Bay, WA 1910

Peter Grant Watson, Bernier Island, 1910

The Imago: E.L. Grant Watson @ Australia

MISCELLANEOUS:

links

NEWS/LINKS

ABC Bookshow with Ramona Koval

‘Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson and his Australian novels’
16 March 2011

‘A Vast Interrogation Mark’
Review of The Imago by James Ley, The Australian, 19-20 March 2011
also published on
The Medusa vs. The Odalisque

“‘It was to have been my best book’: Dorothy Green and E. L. Grant Watson”
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 10, 2010
http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/
jasal/issue/view/132/showToc

Inland: The Work of Tim Storrier
http://storrier.com/html/?page_id=158

Book Review: Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux,
Swahili for the Broken-Hearted by Peter Moore,
Sahara by Michael Palin
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/

JOAN IN INDIA: Interview with Philip Adams,
ABC Late Night Live,
25 November 2008
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/