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Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Translated by Julia Sanches.'A force of nature. A rich and prophetic world of women and low, grey clouds that merge with the sea. Pure poetry' Pilar Quintana'Bold, dazzling, hilarious. Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature' Fernanda Melchor'I am overwhelmed. What a m ...Show more
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's inf ...Show more
Outlawed by Anna North
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu ...Show more
Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWhen sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama by Walter Tevis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discove ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (PB) by Walter Tevis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Series
‘Superb’ - Time Out. ‘Mesmerizing’ - Newsweek. ‘Gripping’ - Financial Times. ‘Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years – for the pure pleasure and skill of it’ - Michael Ondaatje. ‘Don’t pick this up if you want a night’s sleep’ - The Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage at the ag ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before ...Show more
We Were Young by Niamh Campbell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans'She has already been compared with writers such as Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Claire Louise Bennett, and indeed Niamh Campbell does add a distinctive new voice to Irish literature... Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing h ...Show more
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