Michael Ondaatje

Running in the Family is Michael Ondaatje's exquisite blend of memoir and historical portrait, painting a vivid picture of his family's past within the lush backdrop of Sri Lanka. The narrative begins with a haunting sense of longing and curiosity that compels the author to return to his homeland after spending twenty-five years in the starkly different climate of Ontario,...

From the acclaimed author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a stunningly beautiful and moving new novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. What had there been before such a ship in my life? A dugout canoe on a river journey? A launch in Trincomalee harbour? There were...

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery. 'My life always stops for a new book by him.' - JHUMPA LAHIRI 'A generous, moving book.' - GUARDIAN Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London...

An award-winning reinterpretation of the life and death of infamous outlaw Billy the Kid, from Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje. Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje invites you on a brutal, beautiful journey into the American West... At twenty-one years old, Billy the Kid has killed a man for each year he's been alive. Roaming the blasted plains of the Wild...

Michael Ondaatje's incredible debut novel of Jazz and strife, published for the first time in Vintage Classics alongside his memoir, Running in the Family. Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday Times. Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New...

A mesmerising new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets, and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel,...

WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 ‘Magnificent' Sunday Times 'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition...

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery. 'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI 'A generous, moving book' GUARDIAN Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later...

A magical book. Michael Ondaatje defies the normal distinction between poet and novelist. His writing is consistently tuned to a visionary pitch. Graham Swift It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their...

From the author of The English Patient and Running in the Family, a breathtaking novel about love and the horrors of civil war. Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic...

From independence movements in Sri Lanka to train stations in contemporary Ontario, an intimate and witty selection of Michael Ondaatje's most widely loved poems From independence movements in Sri Lanka to train stations in contemporary Ontario, an intimate and witty selection of Michael Ondaatje's most widely loved poems taken across fifty years 'My life always stops for a new book...