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An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Henry and Muriel Bell live on a housing estate with their two small daughters. However, the unexpected visit of Muriel's student, Mr Hawthorne, brings surprising turmoil to the little household. In her last novel, Elizabeth Jolley explores issues of innocence and guilt, passion and possession, while car ...Show more
Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the sequel of sorts to My Father's Moon, and reintroduces us to Vera, many years later, holed up in a hotel room in New York. Vera begins to reflect on her life and in doing so, mourns the loss of love and friendship from her life: from the father of her child who was killed during WWII, to her ...Show more
Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories by Elizabeth Jolley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
During her lifetime, Elizabeth Jolley established a formidable international reputation for her unique combination of unsentimental realism and original humour. Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories brings together two highly acclaimed collections of Jolley's short fiction in a new edition. Five Acre Virgi ...Show more
Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley - Her Life and Work by Elizabeth Jolley
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley - Her Life and Work by Elizabeth Jolley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This collection, chosen and introduced by Elizabeth's long-time friend and agent Caroline Lurie, has a sense of the author looking back, of humbly celebrating her achievements, laughing at her difficulties, and marvelling at life's unexpectedness. First published 2006.
Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Modern Classics
In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels - with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl pr ...Show more
My Father's Moon by Elizabeth Jolley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Vera is young, awkward and naive. As a schoolgirl, she has her sheltered idealism, her Quaker boarding-school education, and the warm, enveloping sense of security of her parents. As a student nurse during the war, her transition into womanhood is rapid, painful and disastrous. And as an unmarried mothe ...Show more
NEWSPAPER OF CLAREMONT STREET THE by JOLLEY ELIZABETH
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
The old cleaning woman, known as 'weekly' or 'the newspaper' dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present - something which is unknown to the residents of Claremont Street.
Palomino by ELIZABETH JOLLEY
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.
Sisters by Drusilla Modjeska (Editor); Gillian Mears; Elizabeth Jolley; Helen Garner; Beth Yahp; Dorothy Hewett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Edited by Drusilla Modjeska, acclaimed author of The Orchard, Poppy and Exiles at Home, this famous anthology explores the sometimes joyous, sometimes vexed world of sisters, with stories and essays by six of Australia's finest writers comprising: Gillian Mears; Elizabeth Jolley; Helen Garner; Beth Yahp ...Show more
The Georges' Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices that echo in the mind like music. In The Georges' Wife, Elizabeth Jolley returns to the themes of discord and harmony between brothers and sister, husbands ...Show more
The Newspaper of Claremont Street: Fremantle Press Treasures by Elizabeth Jolley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The central character of Weekly dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present, as she battles against a hostile community to buy her plot of land. The Gothic quality and the climax of the novel reveal Jolley's ability to create a stunning and original plot.