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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1843. Grace Marks, sixteen, is declared guilty and sentenced to life in prison for participating in the murders of Thomas Kinnear, for whom she was a maid, and Nancy Montgomery, the housekeeper and Thomas' lover. Years later, a group of reformists and spiritualists try to obtain a pardon for her.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 19th century, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty, and mystery. In 1843, Grace Marks was convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Na ...Show more
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sometimes I whisper it over to myself- Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. In 1843, a 16-year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the ju ...Show more
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda by Margaret Atwood
7.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
"Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda" is a boisterous and delightful dissertation on discovering the uncharted depths of one's own personality. Abandoned by his bubble-headed mum and raised by a bunch of dogs, Bob is understandably bashful around humans. Deprived of her parents while still in diapers, Dorin ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
48.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
If I were to meet Cordelia again, what would I tell her about myself? The truth, or whatever would make me look good? Probably the latter. I still have that need. Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelt ...Show more
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.
Curious Pursuits by Margaret Atwood
49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Essays and journalism, including the Afghanistan journey that sowed the seeds of The Handmaid
Curious Pursuits : Occasional Writing by Margaret Atwood
28.00 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Short Stories
' Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I can't refuse. So in some ways this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability to say no.' Collected and published in the UK for th ...Show more
Dancing Girls by Margaret Atwood
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Contemporary classics
Features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? This collection of short stories maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.
Fourteen Days: A Unique Collaborative Novel From a Star-Studded Cast of Writers by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (eds)
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Led by Margaret Atwood, a star-studded cast create a dazzling, heartwarming response to the darkness cast by the pandemic. Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the pandemic, Fourteen Days is a dazzling, heartwarming novel with an unusual twist- each character has been secretly written ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more