The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award, this tour-de-force explores loneliness and desire, the peril and beauty of solitude - and our need for connection. 'A compelling story about isolation, duty, desire, fear and escape. As each character in The Shut-Ins feels increasingly trapped by ...Show more
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own. She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded s ...Show more
Asunder by Aridjis Chloe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Lyrical and haunting . . . A beautiful portrait of urban loneliness, and the pursuit of meaning amid the barbed comforts of solitude." --The Economist Marie's job as a security guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. Bu ...Show more
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling with ...Show more
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