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Cure for Sleep by Tanya Shadrick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
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
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
‘A jack-in-the-box, a Faberge gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers, a cat-and-mouse game, a do-it-yourself novel … one of the great works of art of [the 20th] century’ Mary McCarthy ‘Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstat ...Show more
Plain Pleasures by Jane Bowles
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Category: Classics | 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
Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWhen sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well ...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
The Hill Station by J. G. Farrell
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Category: Classics | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'From the wide veranda you stepped out on to an acre of lawn, as smooth as glass; from the lawn you stepped on to nothing but fresh air.'A summer of the 1870s, the Himalayan resort of Simla, in colonial India. To the cool of the hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, ...Show more
The Hustler by Walter Tevis
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Meet Eddie Felsen: a young pool hustler who's keen on winning big and beating the best. So far, he's been earning decent stakes beating small town players, but there's no pride in beating fools. In order to test himself against the best, Eddie seeks out the legendary Minnesota Fats in a smoky poolroom i ...Show more