G Mcdougall: 9 books

A prize-winning author, Garry McDougall, brings a fresh new collection of stories from France and Spain. He casts his eye over its colourful towns, draws inspiration from each town's weird, violent and peculiar histories, including real and reimagined évents. These towns shape their people. His style...

An fully revised and updated Pilgrimage Three explores numerous French towns, each seen as characters growing-up over their extensive histories, their colourful stories written with a vibrant pen, full of life, passion, and an astute and comic eye. Two other stories recall the traveller and pilgrim...

An adventure in the Ardeche, France, using any and all transport, visiting interesting muséums, towns, gorges, caves and accommodation places. Innovative and imaginative poetic writing by this prize-winning author. Includes practical notes of the best ways and means of getting around.

New travel writing at its best, Pilgrimage relives the pilgrim's journey with affection and bite, lovingly descriptions of pilgrim towns and villages, poetica written with a vibrant and passionate pen. Commentators say Pilgrimage is “beautiful poetic writing", with “inspired metaphor, written...

You'll want to see St Jean Pied de Port, Bayonne and Ostabat (in France), Manjarin, Acebo, the Rioja, Santiago de Compostela and St Domingo de la Calzada (in Spain) after reading Pilgrimage Four. Each are seen as characters with extensive histories, each with colourful stories. Written with a vibrant...

Rarely has such a vivid imagination graced the poetic stage. In this tour de force of lyrical prose and striking imagery, the author is let loose in small, ancient towns in southern France and northern Spain, each one personified, showing its 'long and eventual 'lives', that seem to shape its people.....

New travel writing at its best. This updated, revised Pilgrimage relives the pilgrim's journey, exploring its unique towns with affection and bite, including lovingly descriptions of pilgrims met along thé Way. The stories are written with a vibrant and passionate pen. Commentators say Pilgrimage...

In an explosive Australian story in the inspired style of Tom Keneally, Xavier Herbert and Frank Hardy, this mock murder mystery is a triumph of characterisation and drama where a town finds itself immeshed in forces almost beyond its control. When a corrupt Bicentennial official disappears...

After his 'Pilgrimage' travel series, this is Garry's Australian stories, experiences, insights and flashes gleaned from the everyday. It's poetry and story kept fresh, colourful and wondrous. Inner Flash: Get your Wordsworth. Lucid, affectionate storytelling found in a flash of brilliance and honed...