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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write by Jane Smiley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Over her 20-year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller ...Show more
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars ..."From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girlsMonterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was kill ...Show more
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daugh ...Show more
Charles Dickens (Great Lives) by Jane Smiley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld's series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens's career and w ...Show more
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this stunning family saga from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, ov ...Show more
Golden Age: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy 3 by Jane Smiley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have s ...Show more
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Joe Stratford, who sells nice houses in a beautiful place, and whose not very amicable divorce is over, is ready for his life to begin again. It is 1982, morning in America, and temptation is everywhere. And, as Marcus Burns (Joe's new friend from New York) says, the old rules are ready to be brok ...Show more
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Read by Mary Beth Hurt Four Cassettes, 6 hours Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris,Horse Heavenputs us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire owners and restless wives. Here is the trainer of dazzling integrity ...Show more
Nobody's Horse (Abby Lovitt #1) by Jane Smiley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: 10-13
Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares "Jewel" and all the geldings "George" and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her fr ...Show more
Private Life by Jane Smiley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer - a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother cal ...Show more
Private Life by Jane Smiley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War II. Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer an ...Show more