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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes by Colette Rossant
$21.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1937, five-year-old Colette Rossant arrived in Cairo from Paris with her Egyptian Jewish father and beautiful French mother. When her father dies Colette's flighty mother abandons the little girl to her wealthy grandparents. She soon settles into their luxuriant, food centred lifestyle; spending afte ...Show more
Cheri by Colette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man.Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing ...Show more
Cheri Vintage Classic by Colette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: colette
Cheri, first published in 1920, is considered Colette's finest novel. Exquisitely handsome, spoilt and sardonic, Cheri is the only son of a wealthy courtesan, a contemporary of Lea, the magnificent and talented woman who for six years has devoted herself to his amorous education. When a rich marriage is ...Show more
Claudine Married (Claudine #3) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine's marriage to Renaud has settled into a pattern of bickering and inattention. Just as she begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence, a chance meeting with a friend's wife, the beautiful Rezi, draws her into an impassioned affair.
Claudine in Paris (Claudine #2) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Claudine is in despair, having left her beloved Montigny for a new life in Paris. But her instinctive curiosity gradually leads to an awakened interest in the city. She records her witty observations and adventures amongst the intriguing characters that surround her.
Claudine's House by Colette
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Modern Voices
Claudine's House is a tender and heartfelt portrayal of childhood and memory. On first publication, its popularity was such that the 'Claudine' novels gave rise to a musical stage play and an entire range of associated merchandise. In an idyllic setting of countryside and woods, Colette spent her childh ...Show more
Colossal Words for Kids by Colette Hiller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
An exciting book of poems with colourful drawings to boost vocabulary and reading comprehension-each poem teaches a specific important word, its meaning and spelling. Boost your child's growing vocabulary with 60 hilariously illustrated poems from Colette Hiller, author of the critically acclaimed kids' ...Show more
Gigi by Colette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!' This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, l ...Show more
Gigi and The Cat by Colette
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: colette
In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best. Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan: to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman's chief weapon is her body. However, when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille, ...Show more
Madeleines in Manhattan : A Memoir With Recipes (Volume 3) by Colette Rossant
$21.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It is 1955, and Colette Rossant, newly married, has just arrived in America with her husband Jimmy. She is twenty-two, a Frenchwoman in New York, bemused by American customs and most importantly by the food: the limp sandwiches, the ubiquitous mayonnaise, the iceberg lettuce. But post-war New York is hu ...Show more
My Mother's House and Sido by Colette
$21.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In "My Mother's House" and "Sido," Colette plays fictional variations on the themes of childhood, family, and, above all, her mother. Vividly alive, fond of cities, music, theater, and books, Sido devoted herself to her village, Saint-Saveur; to her garden, with its inhabitants and its animals; and, esp ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Colette by Colette
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Collected Stories of Colette" beings together in one volume for the first time in any language the comprehensive collection of short stories by the novelist known worldwide as Colette, and now acknowledged, with Proust, as the most original French narrative writer of the first half of our century. ...Show more