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Afraid of the Light by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, ...Show more
Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment comes a poignant and profound American love story. How long does it take to fall in love? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried abou ...Show more
Isabelle In The Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradiction ...Show more
Isabelle in the Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A touching exploration of passion untested by domesticity' Mail on SundayBefore Isabelle I knew nothing of sex.Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom.Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life.Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, bea ...Show more
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, e ...Show more
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Woman in the Fifth and The Pursuit of Happiness comes a devastating new novel. Years after vowing to herself and her parents to never marry, have children and lead the resentful life they chose, Jane, now a Harvard professor, falls unexpectedly pregnant. Resolved as sh ...Show more
State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript cor ...Show more
State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents ...Show more
Temptation by Douglas Kennedy
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. An overnight success and suddenly the toast of Tinseltown ...Show more
Temptation by Douglas Kennedy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, big time luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television - and before you can say 'overnight success', he's the ...Show more
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Its 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders- When did the sadness start? And could it be that u ...Show more
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent' New Statesman New York, 1980s Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within resonate, perhaps, because she has just watched her own family implode. As she re ...Show more