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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | 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
48.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | 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
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
35.00 NZD
Category: General 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
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: General 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
15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville
7.99 NZD
27.99 (71% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Lilian Singer, born into a stifling household which totally fails to subdue her. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the household but Lilian's sights are set on education, love and - finally - her own transcendent forms of independence.
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in the fine house her father is so proud of, a strong-willed young woman who's certain where her future lies. She's known Jack Langland since she was a child, and always loved him. ...Show more
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
9.99 NZD
30.00 (66% off)
Category: General Fiction
A new novel from Kate Grenville and a journey back to the Thornhill family of the bestselling The Secret River
Sarah Thornhill (a sequel to The Secret River) by Kate Grenville
29.99 NZD
37.00 (18% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
'From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things fitted together. He never called me Dolly, the way the others did, only my full and proper name.' Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in ...Show more
Searching for the Secret River: A Writing Memoir by Kate Grenville
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Kate Grenville's The Secret River moved and exhilarated thousands of readers when it was published in 2005. They marvelled at the subtlety of its language, and the power of Grenville's storytelling. And they recognised that this simple tale of a poor convict family settling on the banks of the Hawkesbur ...Show more