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Climbers - With an Introduction by Robert Macfarlane by M. John Harrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape' ...Show more
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Translated by Julia Sanches.'A force of nature. A rich and prophetic world of women and low, grey clouds that merge with the sea. Pure poetry' Pilar Quintana'Bold, dazzling, hilarious. Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature' Fernanda Melchor'I am overwhelmed. What a m ...Show more
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure novel' Aminatta Forna, Guardian'A perceptive, compassionate history of an enormously complex conflict' Irish ...Show more
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's inf ...Show more
Nothing by Daniel O'Connor
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'A dark and funny exploration of the fears and anxieties embedded in domestic suburban life' Big Issue 'Bringing to mind Flann O'Brien or Charlie Kaufman. You find yourself at the mercy of your craving for the next page. O'Connor's debut novel has knocked the ball out of the park' Buzz 'O'Connor's add ...Show more
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MAGGIE O'FARRELL Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother's black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw... In this, her first novel, Elspeth Barker evokes the unrelenting chill of Calvinism and the Scottish climate; it's a w ...Show more
Plain Pleasures by Jane Bowles
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In this collection of short fiction, ranging from North Africa to South America, Bowles explores her fascination with the hidden lives of apparently ordinary middle-aged women.'One of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language' John Ashberry'A modern legend' Truman Capote'A thoroughly original ...Show more
Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWhen sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well ...Show more
Speedboat by Renata Adler
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents, and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as she finds it.Simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique ...Show more
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman: With an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Andrzej Szczypiorski
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair.With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, un ...Show more
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker'Ingenious. Exactly what good critical writing should be' Max Beloff, GuardianThe fox knows man ...Show more
The Hill Station by J. G. Farrell
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'From the wide veranda you stepped out on to an acre of lawn, as smooth as glass; from the lawn you stepped on to nothing but fresh air.'A summer of the 1870s, the Himalayan resort of Simla, in colonial India. To the cool of the hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, ...Show more