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Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who f ...Show more
Booth: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 by Karen Joy Fowler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin' Sunday Times Book of the Month SI ...Show more
Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Everyone turns out to be a writer', Addison said. 'Why? Why must everyone write? Why can't they just read?' Rima Lanisell is a young woman at a loose end, following the death of her father. Rima has a history of losing things: keys, sunglasses, family members. Now she has come to the coast of Californi ...Show more
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin; Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction by)
$38.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?"On breakfast: "Eatin ...Show more
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: A selection of the finest in science fiction - Black-cloaked Sarah Canary is the ugliest woman Chin Ah Kin could ever imagine. But after she wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin is ordered by his uncle to escort her away. Far awa ...Show more
Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Words were invented so lies could be told' Mary Ellen Pleasant San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions, home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild West lingering in the imagination, and even the behaviour, of some residents. Lizzie Hayes, a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinst ...Show more
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 by Karen Joy Fowler ed
$27.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American
A great, fun, romping collection of stories. "San Francisco Book Review" This volume s diverse list of well-known and rising stars . . . makes it a welcome addition to the 'Best American' series. " Washington Post" A powerful collection that is worth your time, attention, and love. "Tor" In its inaugura ...Show more
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair condition. Yellowing on pages, well read. In California's Sacramento Valley, six people meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but all wounded in different ways, all mixed up about their lives and ...Show more
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but e ...Show more
The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key elements appear to be uniforms and travel.' It is 1947 and in the aftermath of World War II, halcyon days have n ...Show more
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2013Named by The Christian Science Monitor as one of the top 15 works of fiction The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a m ...Show more
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you. 'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' - Guardian 'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' - Barbara Kingsolver THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whir ...Show more