Spring: 'A dazzling hymn to hope' Observer by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Peri ...Show more
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatch ...Show more
Our Magic Hour by Jennifer Down
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
All night Audrey woke again and again, and every so often Nick would be awake, too, and their bodies would shift into new shapes, and once Nick reached for her as if in a panic, and once Audrey thumped to the kitchen half-awake and stuck her head under the tap to drink, and once she turned over to face ...Show more
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