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A Grief Observed - Readers' Edition by C. S. Lewis; Jenna Bailey; Maureen Freely; Hilary Mantel; Jessica Martin; Kate Saunders; Francis Spufford; Rowan Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Reading Level: very good
In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In response, he wrote this journal, freely confessing his pain, ...Show more
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had th ...Show more
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of t ...Show more
I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.' Francis Spufford's celebrated and prize-winning history shows how ...Show more
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1944. It's a Saturday lunchtime on Bexford High Street. The Woolworths has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans, and a crowd has gathered to see the first new metal in a long time. Everything else has been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone. Incinerated. Atomised. Among ...Show more
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
2021 Booker Longlist 1944. It's a Saturday lunchtime on Bexford High Street. The Woolworths has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans, and a crowd has gathered to see the first new metal in a long time. Everything else has been melted down for the war effort.An instant later, the crowd is gone. Incinera ...Show more
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Francis Spufford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, ha ...Show more
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the ma ...Show more
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
What if the Soviet 'miracle' had worked, and the communists had discovered the secret to prosperity, progress and happiness...? The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that th ...Show more
The Antarctic : An anthology by Francis Spufford (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"The Antarctic" features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the South Pole. Contributors include British, American, Australian, Scandinavian, Japanese and Russian explorers such as Er ...Show more
The Ends of the Earth : An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (Boxed set of 2 hardcovers) by Elizabeth Kolbert & Francis Spufford (eds)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
"The Ends of the Earth" is an elegant boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic.Contributors include: Roald Amundsen, Beryl Bainbridge, Andrea Barrett, James Buchan, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Jenny Diski, Tim Flannery, Jon Krakauer, Ha ...Show more
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Reading Level: very good
But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic ...Show more