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Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two...

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The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus , Shirley Hazzard returns to...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: clipped dj, in mylar; minor insect damage. Binding: remains tight; boards - light bumping on corners. In...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping work of literary fiction, The Transit of Venus chronicles the intertwined lives of two Australian sisters, Caro and Grace...

Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...

Author: Brigitta OlubasFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 500g, 576 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2023Cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing - Shirley Hazzard's writing reflects her life. The acclaim...

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Edition: 1st uk ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: whiteout on fep. price clipped dj. Set against the sun-drenched landscapes of postwar Italy, The...

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...

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Traces the life and loves of the eighteenth-century French novelist and writer of operas.

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'As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read' - Stephen King Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an...

In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet- her children Shirley Jackson skewered the trials...

Isolated from society, Emily Bronte and her siblings spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes...

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Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2869 Twenty-one literary fiction titles spanning Booker winners, Nobel laureates, and some of the finest writing in English from the 1960s to the 1990s...

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Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box Dive into a diverse collection of gripping narratives and insightful stories with our Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box. This curated selection of pre-loved...

Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British...

'A gorgeously written, surrealist folktale that goes bone deep. Compelling, thought-provoking, thrilling, haunting , Yvonne Battle-Felton's Curdle Creek is simply a marvel ' Paul Tremblay, author of THE CABIN AT...

*Winner of the 2024 SHIRLEY JACKSON NOVEL AWARD* 'A gorgeously written, surrealist folktale that goes bone deep . . . Curdle Creek is simply a marvel ' Paul Tremblay 'A...

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'Electrifying and magical... you know you're in the hands of a master storyteller' A. F. Steadman, author of Skandar A rip-roaring adventure story of magic, myth and mermaids, featuring Liz...

'If you crossed The Miniaturist with Promising Young Woman , you'd get The House of Barbary . . . a blazing feminist roar of a novel' Naomi Kelsey Beatrice has...

A FINANCIAL TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Thrilling, heartfelt, and luminous ' Vashti Hardy ' A stunning debut ' Jasbinder Bilan ' The world-building here is so seamless...

Christine Moore, a middle-aged, burned-out woman, finds her life changing when she meets a gorgeous man astride a 1340cc Harley Davidson and begins a spiritual journey that leads her through...

'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even...

'A gorgeous collection: if you savour words quite as much as food, this is for you!' NIGELLA LAWSON A deliciously moreish collection of the finest pieces of writing on food....

Kate, Mia, Lainey, and Gabby are special girls. They know how to travel between their hometown and Never Land-through a broken slat in a backyard fence. But what happens when...

Riley Unlikely is the inspiring story of Riley Banks, who first traveled to Kenya at age 13, and has been back every year since bringing backpacks of school supplies and...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller and instant Sunday Times Bestseller The only official companion to the Harry Potter stories - the ultimate compendium of wizarding lists, charts, maps and...

'A knockout thriller. Harvey dispenses the pressure plays, cruel surprises and heartbreaking setbacks of his plot with crack timing, never allowing the reader a moment to unfasten his seat belt'...

Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted....

From the founder of THINX and author of the New York Times bestseller Do Cool Sh*t, a guide to making 13 "disruptions" in your personal and professional life that can...

For fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable debut about a generation struggling to understand the world and their place in it Saoirse's life has lost what...

A stunning book full of inspiration, tips and advice. The Emma Bridgewater factory in Stoke-on-Trent is a mecca for lovers of her iconic pottery, but perhaps its most striking feature...

Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre...

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The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the Ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise....