Background
Born Robert Nicholas Jose in London, England, to Australian parents, Nicholas Jose grew up mostly in Adelaide, South Australia.
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The rose crossing
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The Red Thread: A Love Story
(A seductive literary love story set in contemporary Shang...)
A seductive literary love story set in contemporary Shanghai, The Red Thread intertwines the lives of two pairs of lovers across the centuries. Shen, a young, American-educated appraiser in a Shanghai auction house, is captivated by Ruth, a self-possessed Australian artist who happens into one of his auctions. As they fall in love, Shen finds that their lives are strangely mirrored by those of the characters in a rare Chinese manuscript that is nearly two hundred years old, and of which the last two chapters have never been found. Shen's search for the final chapters goes from one of curiosity to one of desperation when he realizes that the future of their relationship, and the prognosis for Ruth's failing health, seem to be foretold in the missing pages. Interwoven in the novel and presented in red type are passages from the actual nineteenth century memoir Six Chapters of a Floating Life that illuminate the lovers' parallel lives. An elegant and multilayered novel, drawing comparisons with Memoirs of a Geisha and The English Patient, The Red Thread is evocative, moving, and unforgettable.
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The Rose Crossing
( A voluptuously exotic novel of seduction and betrayal a...)
A voluptuously exotic novel of seduction and betrayal about the quest for that most elusive of horticultural prizes: the black rose. Escaping a ship’s mutiny with his stowaway daughter, 17th-century naturalist Edward Popple is cast ashore on an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean―where he must face the monster of baser instincts: lust, greed, and deception.
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Nicholas Jose
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He was educated at the Australian National University and Oxford University. He has traveled extensively, particularly in China, where he worked from 1986 to 1990. He was President of Sydney Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association from 2002 to 2005, Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University from 2009 to 2010, and is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing both at the University of Adelaide and Bath Spa University, England.
He has written widely on contemporary art and literature from Asia and the Pacific.
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The Red Thread: A Love Story
(A seductive literary love story set in contemporary Shang...)
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The Rose Crossing
( A voluptuously exotic novel of seduction and betrayal a...)
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The Red Thread: A Love Story
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Australia
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Sydney PEN Award Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Franklin Award
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Sydney PEN Award Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Franklin Award
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.