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Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Translated by Julia Sanches.'A force of nature. A rich and prophetic world of women and low, grey clouds that merge with the sea. Pure poetry' Pilar Quintana'Bold, dazzling, hilarious. Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature' Fernanda Melchor'I am overwhelmed. What a m ...Show more
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
"A luminous telling of two modern romances, a book that lingers sweetly and hilariously in the memory." --Dallas Morning News Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends--third cousins, really--living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels con ...Show more
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's inf ...Show more
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In Notes from the Henhouse, you will find: A Gothic castle, a draughty Norfolk farmhouse and a malevolent Aga A pet pig, Portia with a penchant for drama, an obsession with geraniums and an addiction to wine (the Bulgarian vintage) George Barker, poet and beloved husband, warbling cowboy songs into h ...Show more
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MAGGIE O'FARRELL Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother's black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw... In this, her first novel, Elspeth Barker evokes the unrelenting chill of Calvinism and the Scottish climate; it's a w ...Show more
Outlawed by Anna North
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu ...Show more
Plain Pleasures by Jane Bowles
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In this collection of short fiction, ranging from North Africa to South America, Bowles explores her fascination with the hidden lives of apparently ordinary middle-aged women.'One of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language' John Ashberry'A modern legend' Truman Capote'A thoroughly original ...Show more
Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWhen sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well ...Show more
Speedboat by Renata Adler
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as she finds it.Simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique ...Show more
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker'Ingenious. Exactly what good critical writing should be' Max Beloff, GuardianThe fox knows man ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (PB) by Walter Tevis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Series
‘Superb’ - Time Out. ‘Mesmerizing’ - Newsweek. ‘Gripping’ - Financial Times. ‘Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years – for the pure pleasure and skill of it’ - Michael Ondaatje. ‘Don’t pick this up if you want a night’s sleep’ - The Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage at the ag ...Show more
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Two award-winning works of fiction by one of America's finest writers, together in one collection. In "The Shawl," a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In "Rosa," that same woman appears thirty years later, "a mad woman and a scavenger" in a Miami hotel. She ...Show more