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Adoration (Film tie-In Edition) by Doris Lessing
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Grandmothers' is the story of two women who meet as schoolgirls and, in later life, live next-door to each other as neighbours. When their marriages collapse, each finds herself infatuated with the other's son. This is a searingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the length ...Show more
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. When we first meet Martha Quest, she is a girl of fifteen living with her parents on a poor African farm. S ...Show more
Playing the Game by Doris Lessing
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Category: General Fiction
Like the author's "Canopus in Argos" novels, this graphic novel is an exercise in speculative imagination. It marks a venture into new creative territory for Lessing, and is illustrated by the young British artist Daniel Vallely.
Sun Between Their Feet by Lessing Doris
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.‘As for these stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse start ...Show more
The Cleft by Doris May Lessing
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last ende ...Show more
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
$17.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records he ...Show more
The Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing
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Category: General Fiction
A group of squatters rebel against Mrs Thatcher and erupt into violence in this politicised novel from the author of 'The Golden Notebook'. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desp ...Show more
The Grass is Singing by Doris May Lessing
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the blac ...Show more
This Was The Old Chief's Country by Lessing Doris
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
'It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was - and still is - the Old Chief's Country. So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading: tales about white people, sometimes about black people, living in a landscape that not so very long ago was settled ...Show more
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