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Cure for Sleep by Tanya Shadrick
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
29.99 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
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure novel' Aminatta Forna, Guardian'A perceptive, compassionate history of an enormously complex conflict' Irish ...Show more
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
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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
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
In the Cut by Susanna Moore
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Living alone in New York, Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students, and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia, n., vagina; snapper, n., vagina; brasole, n., vagina. One evening at a bar, she stumbles upon a man, his face in shadow, a tattoon on his wrist, a woman ...Show more
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
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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
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Category: Fiction | 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
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Category: Fiction | 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
Speedboat by Renata Adler
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Category: Fiction | 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 Beautiful Mrs Seidenman: With an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Andrzej Szczypiorski
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair.With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, un ...Show more
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
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Category: History | 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