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Nicole Nabout

Nicole Nabout is a Melbourne-based actor who has worked across film, television and stage. She has appeared Blue Heelers, The Librarians, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Wentworth, Nowhere Boys and Offspring. Her stage credits include Much Ado About Nothing and Midsummer Night’s Dream for The Australian Shakespeare Company. Nicole has also previously narrated The Orchard by Eva Tatina and Losing Face by George Haddad.

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Title:

Salonika Burning (MP3)

Written by:

Gail Jones 

Read by:

Nicole Nabout 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

6 hours 12 minutes 

MP3 size:

270 MB 

Published:

May 28 2024 

Available Date:

May 28 2024 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781038674371 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction; War Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 34.95

AUD$ 34.95

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Award winning author
Australian author

Longlisted ARA Historical Novel Prize / Adult 2023

Immersive and gripping, Salonika Burning illuminates not only the devastation of war but also the vast social upheaval of the times. It shows Gail Jones to be at the height of her powers.

Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal – surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them – Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley – are at the centre of Gail Jones’s extraordinary new novel, which takes its inspiration from the wartime experiences of Australians Miles Franklin and Olive King, and British painters Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer. In Jones’s imagination these four lives intertwine and change, each compelled by the desire to create something meaningful in the ruins of a broken world.

'Gail Jones has to be one of Australia’s most consistently impressive writers. Her prose is evocative, her plots meaningful and her characters drawn with considerable care…[Salonika Burning] is just as reliably lush, moving and literary as everything else she’s written.'
Guardian

'Elegant and intensely ruminative ... Jones’s language in Salonika Burning is at once muscular and delicate, her narrative precise yet impressionistic ... Jones has written some fine novels ... but none finer than Salonika Burning.’
Australian Book Review

'Fans of Jones’s gift with words will appreciate this moving, poetic and meditative tribute to war, suffering, fortitude and the human spirit.'
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