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Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. Around these two superbly drawn ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism. 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upsi ...Show more
Springtime by Michelle de Kretser
18.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.'..W ...Show more
THE HAMILTON CASE by Michelle De Kretser
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
MURDER, A MOONLESS NIGHT, THE JUNGLE CROWDING CLOSE.477. The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations and jungle, decay, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping nuanced novel has a pitch-perfect ear for the comedy and a sharp eye for the tragedy of a world at the end of ...Show more
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
26.99 NZD
32.99 (18% off)
Category: General Fiction
MURDER, MOONLIGHT, THE JUNGLE CROWDING CLOSE...The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, decay and corruption, this sinuous, subtle, surprising novel is a masterly evocation of time and place, of colonialism and the backwash of empire. It is the story of an embittered Ceylonese ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry James than with finding his dog, who is lost in the Australian bush. Joining his daily hunt is Nelly Zhang, an artist whose husband disappeared mysteriously years before Tom met her. Although Nelly helps him ...Show more
The Lost Dog - Man Booker Longlist 2008 by Michelle De Kretser
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Filled with luminous writing and startlingly wise observations, this is also a funny, moving and a beautiful contemporary Australian love story and a juicy mystery all at once. Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. W ...Show more
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