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Published 21 September 2011
ISBN 9781921758959
Format Paperback
Extent 348pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $30.00

Jamrach's Menagerie



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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011 Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011

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, Carol Birch's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel evokes the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century from the squalor of London to the islands of the South Seas. This historical adventure is a major literary accomplishment and will delight fans of Michel Faber and Sara Gruen.

Published 21 September 2011
ISBN 9781921758959
Format Paperback
Extent 348pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $30.00