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New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
37.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his essay on Tennessee Williams, Colm Toibin reveals an artist profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, Toibin examines a world of family relations, and in Roddy Doyle's writing on his parents illuminates an Ireland reinvented. F ...Show more
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any ...Show more
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and ...Show more
The Empty Family by Colm Toibin
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that." In the nine captivating stories that make u ...Show more
The Master by Colm Toibin
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction It is January 1895 and Henry James
The Master by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures ...Show more
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
For four years from 1990, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. The result is this beautifully wrought book. He shows the complications and contradictions of the Catholic Church, and tries to unravel how they in turn influence a country's sense of nationalism. It is not quite a tra ...Show more
The South by Toibin, Colm
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland and her family for Barcelona, determined to become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and proceeds to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish emigre to Spain, f ...Show more
The South by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning tale is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home.Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland ...Show more
The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the ...Show more
The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks.Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the ...Show more