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Love Nina by Nina Stibbe
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Being a nanny is great. Not like a job really, just like living in someone else's life. Today before breakfast Sam had to empty the dishwasher and Will had to feed the cat. Sam: I hate emptying the dishwasher. MK: We all do, that's why we take turns. Will: I hate the cat. MK: We all do, that's why we ta ...Show more
Old Filth: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction by Jane Gardam
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina Stibbe'One of the finest writers around. Old Filth has stayed with me for years...Can't think of anyone who achieves so much with so few words' Sathnam Sanghera'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition ...Show more
One Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina Stibbe
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer.' Meg Mason'Wonderful . . . Her best yet' Kathy Burke'I ...Show more
One Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina Stibbe
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer' Meg Mason'Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique ...Show more
Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to co ...Show more
Reasons to be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the tall buildings, couldn't shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples from th ...Show more
Went to London, Took the Dog - The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway by Nina Stibbe
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the beloved writer Nina Stibbe, a warm and funny story of a woman changing her life at 60. 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls, author of One Day 'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss What does it mean to start again at sixty? Nin ...Show more
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