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Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters wit ...Show more
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vogue.com, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and ...Show more
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly something changes. ...Show more
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: critically acclaimed and widely adored, Dept. of Speculation is an electrifying, funny and wise account of a couple falling out of one another's orbit.
Last Things by Jenny Offill
$19.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE EXQUISITE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEPT. OF SPECULATION Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by the New York Times, Village Voice and Guardian To eight-year-old Grace Davitt, her mother, Anna, is a puzzling yet wonderful mystery. This is a woman who has seen a sea serpent i ...Show more
Sparky! by Jenny Offill; Chris Appelhans (Illustrator)
$32.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
The ingenious author of 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore and a brilliant illustrator and production designer of the Coraline movie have created a hilarious, touching picture book perfect for young animal lovers. Like the Caldecott Medal-winning Officer Buckle and Gloria, Sparky stars a pet who ha ...Show more
Sparky! by Jenny Offill
$16.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A little girl wants a pet. She's not fussy, any will do. Her mother said no to a bird and bunny and trained seal. Then she agrees to the sloth, Sparky! Sloths don't know how to fetch. Or roll over. But they sure know how to play dead. What's an eager pet owner to do?
Weather by Jenny Offill
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Dept. of Speculation, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort as it plays out in these times of environmental and political turbulence. 'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says wha ...Show more
Weather by Jenny Offill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation comes a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side ...Show more
Weather by Jenny Offill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny... Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise ...Show more
Weather - A Novel by Jenny Offill
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a ...Show more
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