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An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
She is a shimmering, tattooed and acerbic angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He, an accountant worn down by the day-to-day struggles of the nine to five, is dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. She attempts, with scornful wit, to shock him out ...Show more
An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy She is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He an accountant, dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. She attempts to ...Show more
August Blue by Deborah Levy
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home 'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitte ...Show more
Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography: Early Levy by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Early Levy comprises two pioneering early works by Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy. Beautiful Mutants - Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. Through them, Levy explores broken dreams and self-destructive desires in a ...Show more
Black Vodka: Ten Stories by Deborah Levy; Michèle Roberts (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The stories in Black Vodka, by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, are perfectly formed worlds unto themselves, written in elegant yet economical prose. She is a master of the short story, exploring loneliness and belonging; violence and tenderness; the ephemeral and the solid; the grotesque and the beautifu ...Show more
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home - Deborah Levy explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor. It was tucked under my arm and slid out of its black rubber sheath, landing scree ...Show more
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves "gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor" (The New York Times).I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for jus ...Show more
Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3 by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and b ...Show more
Stardust Nation by Deborah Levy
$27.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
"We are Stardust, Tom." Nikos Gazidis is suffering from a strange psychiatric condition: he seems to have unwittingly crashed into the consciousness of his boss. Committed to an institution for the rich and unstable, Nikos is afflicted by the disturbing memories and violent emotions of a man who suffere ...Show more
Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? ...Show more
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Short-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. "Readers will have to resist the temptation to hurry up in order to find out what happens . . . Our reward is the enjoyable, if unsettling, experience of being pitched into the deep waters of Levy's wry, accomplished novel."--Francine Prose, New York Times Boo ...Show more