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
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, determined and fearless. She's not even derailed when her parents drop a massive bombshell on her twenty-first birthday. But then she meets the charming but aimless Martin, and for the first time, Gilgi finds herself blown bewilderingly and dangero ...Show more
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But yea ...Show more
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attractio ...Show more
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