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BUNCH OF FIVES, A by SIMPSON, HELEN
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Since the publication of Four Bare Legs in a Bed, her first collection, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work today. These are wickedly funny, heartfelt, and sensuous stories that deal with the full stretch, from birth to death and everything in between.
Cockfosters by Helen Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and renewal found in long friendships and marriages. It opens irresistible new windows onto the world from Arizona to Dubai and from Moscow to Berlin. Turning both a panoramic and a z ...Show more
Four Bare Legs in Bed by Helen Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies. By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawt ...Show more
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
$7.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old argume ...Show more
The Outcast and the Rite - Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-38 by Helen de Guerry Simpson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Weirds Ser.
The Australian novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) published many supernatural short stories. This new edition selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric (1925). Featured stories include: 'An Experime ...Show more
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