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A Stranger City by Linda Grant
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'[A] shimmering new novel . . . Grant's book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings' The Economist 'A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it's a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times' Suzi Feay, Financial Times ...Show more
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on ...Show more
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force officer ...Show more
The Story of the Forest: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023 by Linda Grant
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1913 and a young reckless girl goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like a fairy tale but it's not the supernatural - the adventure leads to flight, emigration, and the story of a migrant family adapting ...Show more
The Thoughtful Dresser by Linda Grant
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
'A good handbag makes the outfit. Only the rich can afford cheap shoes. The only thing worse than being skint is looking as if you're skint.' For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain empty-headed women. Yet, clothes matter, whether you are interested in fas ...Show more
Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explain.' In the early Seventies a glamorou ...Show more
We Had it So Good by Linda Grant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1968 Stephen Newman arrives in England from California. Sent down from Oxford, he hurriedly marries his English girlfriend Andrea to avoid returning to America and the draft board. Over the next forty years they and their friends build lives of middle-class success until the events of late middle-age ...Show more
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