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Alfred and Emily by Doris May Lessing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first book after Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emo ...Show more
The Cleft by Doris May Lessing
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last ende ...Show more
The Fifth Child by Doris May Lessing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Paladin Books
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four chi ...Show more
The Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth-century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become ...Show more
The Grass is Singing by Doris May Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the blac ...Show more
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