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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Releases | Reading Level: very good
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Kate Grenville.What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously fou ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Releases | Reading Level: near fine
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
Bearded Ladies / Dreamhouse: Omnibus Edition by Kate Grenville
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bearded Ladies and Dreamhouse are combined here in one volume, back to-back. Bearded Ladies was Kate's first book, a collection of short stories. Dreamhouse evokes the mystery and menace underpinning everyday life, and the Tuscan 'dreamhouse' is the stuff of nightmares.
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The author, with her incomparable skill and insight, introduces us to a man - a respectable man, wrapped snugly in the costume of status - and opens him up to show us the fear and hatred that drive him. 'Dark Places' revists Grenville's earlier work 'Lilian's Story', but this time we see the events unfo ...Show more
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Albion Gidley Singer creates his world as a vast collection of facts; facts he uses to support his own power and status. After an awkward childhood, aware that he is a disappointment to his father, he acquires, the trappings of respectability, success in business and a family. But in Albion's soul remai ...Show more
Dark Places: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and such is the nature of this intractable universe that the only thing you can start with is yourself. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian’s Story, is ...Show more
Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Kate Grenville's collection of Elizabeth Macarthur's letters, the inspiration for her bestselling, award-winning novel A Room Made of Leaves. These letters were the starting point for Kate Grenville's bestselling novel A Room Made of Leaves. They inspired the portrait of her imagined Elizabeth Macarthu ...Show more
Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world. Lilian Una Singer star ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again! When Kate ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more