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A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018Shortlisted for the Baileys Women 's Prize for FictionSummer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qa ...Show more
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about ...Show more
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possi ...Show more
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' MADELINE MILLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, BBC, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, IRISH TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMESMaryam and Zahra.In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and ...Show more
Best of Friends - A Novel by Kamila Shamsie
$54.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces." --Madeline Miller"A shining tour de force about a long friendship's respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities." --Ali Smith From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship and the forces tha ...Show more
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code--a letter that could only have ...Show more
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.How did it come to this?he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading u ...Show more
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.How did it come to this?he wonders…August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with ...Show more
Duckling: A Fairytale Revolution by Kamila Shamsie
$27.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Classics | Series: A Fairy Tale Revolution
Kamila Shamsie retells 'The Ugly Duckling'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. 'A duck unlike other ducks. A raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, who struck out into the world on her own...' On the farm, some eggs are hatching. A flock of sweet ducklings are ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Ingenious... Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." --The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is fre ...Show more
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more