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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and no ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the gho ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - first published in 1987 - brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrenc ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH.
Burn This Book by Toni Morrison
$30.00 AUD
$32.99 (9% off)
Category: On Writing | Series: Pen Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
In "Witness: The Inward Testimony" Nadine Gordimer discusses the role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees 'what is really taking place'. She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately concluding 'Literature has been and remains ...Show more
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
$29.99 AUD
"The new novel from the author of BelovedThe past has a hold like no other...Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment ...Show more
Home by Toni Morrison
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The powerful new novel from Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, that excavates the pain of a soldier's homecoming in 1950s America. It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And t ...Show more
Home by Toni Morrison
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His Home and himself in it may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apat ...Show more
James Baldwin - Collected Essays by James Baldwin; Toni Morrison (ed.)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Library of America James Baldwin Edition Ser.
James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of ...Show more
Jazz by Toni Morrison
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a k ...Show more