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Ordinary Decent Criminals by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a bold and savage story of the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland. Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad, Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. ...Show more
Property by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Interm ...Show more
Property: A Collection by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver 'Genius' Stylist'Phenomenal' Observer'Brilliant' The TimesIn her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age's most enduring obsessions: property. A woman creates a deeply personal wedding present for he ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
“The Cassandra of American letters.”- New York Times When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief? Both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties, ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Determined to die with dignity, Kay and her husband Cyril - both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties - make a pact: to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty.A lot can change in thirty years, however...By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should ...Show more
So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
All his life Shep Knacker has dreamed of leaving New York and living in simplicity in the Third World. Yet he comes to realise that his wife, Glynis, has never been serious about making the change. On the very day that he announces he is leaving for the island of Pemba with or without her, she informs h ...Show more
So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shep Knacker has long saved for 'the Afterlife', an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep finally announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without ...Show more
The Female of the Species by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it. Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fat and ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Sa ...Show more