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Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary m ...Show more
Dear Life by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca ...Show more
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good
In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven' ...Show more
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or i ...Show more
Lying Under the Apple Tree by Alice Munro
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready". (The Times). Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of ...Show more
New Selected Stories by Alice Munro
49.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Written with emotion and empathy, beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, these stories are n ...Show more
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.
Queenie by Alice Munro
5.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy ...Show more
Runaway by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and w ...Show more
Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro
49.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A brilliant new collection from the matchless Munro who is recognized as one of the greatest living short story writers, and who makes art out of everyday lives. Her most powerful and compelling work yet. At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, ab ...Show more
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction
Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick ...Show more
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisabl ...Show more