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Antiquities and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'A strange and compelling new book from one of America's greatest living authors' Times Literary Supplement 'As cunning and rich as anything Ozick's written' Wall Street Journal 'One of our era's central writers. About a man ensnared by history, Antiquities is at once a warning against the hazards of no ...Show more
Climbers - With an Introduction by Robert Macfarlane by M. John Harrison
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape' ...Show more
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
$24.99 AUD
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
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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
The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama by Walter Tevis
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discove ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (PB) by Walter Tevis
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Series | Reading Level: very good
‘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 Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before ...Show more
The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author.Soon to be an ITV television series starring David Morrisey, Luke Treadaway, Charles Dance and Jane Horrocks.Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and defer ...Show more
The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of ...Show more
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