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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 The Ringmaster
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'Autumn 1990. The world is teetering on the edge of war in the Gulf, Germany is reunited and a crumbling USSR stares ruin in the face. In Japan, a group of powerful men and women gather to create a rescue plan that will bring all three countries together for the first time in fifty years.

'Polyglot international publisher Gill Langton is mediator-in-chief. Treading the highest wire of global power-broking, he alone can balance politics with intrigue, manoeuvre with counter-manoeuvre. But his love for the beautiful, enigmatic Martha could bring it all tumbling down.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

Notes

  • Dedication: For PHYL with gratitude and affection
  • Epigraph: 'Circus. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.'/The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce (1881-1911)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Heinemann ,
      1991 .
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      Extent: 309p.
      ISBN: 0434858986
    • Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Heinemann , 1991 .
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      Extent: 309p.
      ISBN: 0855614420
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Mandarin ,
      1992 .
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      Extent: 304p.
      Reprinted: 1995
      ISBN: 0749320737
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Harper Paperbacks ,
      1996 .
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      Extent: 450p.
      ISBN: 0061010804
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2017 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 2017.

      ISBN: 9781760297725, 9781760638481
Alternative title: El ojo del samurai
Language: Spanish

Other Formats

  • Also braille and sound recording.

Works about this Work

West Turns to Modern Tales 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 August 1991; (p. 3)
Life is Change, Even if It's a Disaster Shirley Despoja , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 9 November 1991; (p. 12)

— Review of The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel ; Tall Poppies Too 1991 selected work interview
Gripping Yarns for Big Children Greg Flynn , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 November 1991; (p. rev 7)

— Review of The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel
A Son's Survival Kit to Life Peter Pierce , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 September 1991; (p. 10)

— Review of The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel
High-Power Bores Simon Hughes , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 October 1991; (p. 38)

— Review of The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel
Off the Shelf Pamela Ruskin , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 8 November vol. 58 no. 10 1991; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Neglected Poems Barry Humphries , 1991 selected work poetry ; The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel ; Entertaining Australia : An Illustrated History 1991 anthology criticism prose
Forecasts Nicole Strang , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , July vol. 71 no. 1017 1991; (p. 18)

— Review of The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel
West Moves East with the Times Peter Dean , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 September 1991; (p. wkd 6)

— Review of The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel
A '90s Nostrodamus? Patricia Rolfe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 September vol. 113 no. 5786 1991; (p. 22)

— Review of The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel
West Moves East, Prophetically Colin Steele , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 September 1991; (p. C8)

— Review of The Ringmaster Morris West , 1991 single work novel
Sharing a Sense of the Spiritual Bron Sibree , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 September 1991; (p. 23)
West Turns to Modern Tales 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 August 1991; (p. 3)
West, the Ringmaster on the Prophetic Edge Bron Sibree , 1991 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 23 November 1991; (p. 12)
Future Foretold in West's Works Deborah Bogle , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 September 1991; (p. 7)
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    Thailand,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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    Former Soviet Union,
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    Eastern Europe, Europe,
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    Former Soviet Union,
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    Eastern Europe, Europe,
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  • 1990s
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