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Animal People by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"He could not find one single more word to say. I just want to be free. He could not say those words. They had already withered in his mind, turned to dust. He did not even know, he marvelled now, what the hell those words had meant." Charlotte Wood takes a character from her bestselling book The Childr ...Show more
Animal People(Prize winner People's Choice 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) by Charlotte Wood
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Why I can't review Animal People. 'I read Charlotte Wood's novel Animal People twice. I think it's one of the best contemporary novels I have read. But I cannot review it. I tried a number of times and failed each time. I only recently realised why this is. I don't want to review Animal People. I want t ...Show more
Art Deco 1910 - 1939 by Charlotte Benton (Editor); Tim Benton (Editor); Ghislaine Wood (Editor)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Art deco--the style of the flapper, the luxury ocean liner, and the skyscraper--came to epitomize the glamour, luxury, and hedonism of the Jazz Age. It burst onto the world stage at the 1925 Exposition internationale des art decoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris and quickly swept the globe. Its in ...Show more
Brothers and Sisters by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self ...Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you ...You recognise one another, this is your relief and ...Show more
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collectio ...Show more
Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood
$22.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
Love and Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has learned over more than twenty years about cooking and the pleasures of simple food well made. In this age of gastro-porn and the fetishisation of food, the pressure to be as expert as the chefs we've turned into celebrities can feel over ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2016 by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In The Best Australian Stories 2016, Charlotte Wood, author of The Natural Way of Things (winner of the 2016 Stella Prize, and the 2016 Indie Book of the Year), presents twenty pieces of outstanding short fiction. Featuring the work of exciting new voices alongside stories by established favourites, thi ...Show more
The Children by Charlotte Wood
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When their father is critically injured, foreign correspondent Mandy and her siblings return home, bringing with them the remnants and patterns of childhood. Mandy has lived away from the country for many years. Her head is filled with images of terror and war, and her homecoming to the quiet country to ...Show more
The Children by Charlotte Wood
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Who said Happiness is the light shining on the water? The water is cold and dark and deep.'Three adult siblings return home to the country town of their childhood when their father is critically injured in a fall. They each have their own reasons for dreading the homecoming, and bring with them the rem ...Show more
The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
An inspiring work about creativity and resiliance from the multi-award-winning author of The Weekend. 'A rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears and profound self-discoveries of creativity - through making or building anything that wasn't there before, any imaginative explo ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hu ...Show more