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A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Classic Lionel Shriver ... Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into 'hi ...Show more
ABOMINATIONS 6 COPY PACK by Shriver, Lionel
$197.94 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Pack contains: 6 x 9780008458621 Abominations: Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's cancelled by Christmas' THE TIMES (Book of the Year)'You may disagree with Lionel Shriver's bracing journalism, bu ...Show more
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the compelling and confronting story of a sister who risks her marriage to save her morbidly obese brother. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize ...Show more
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the grown siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Worse, Edison's slovenly habits, appallin ...Show more
Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician's heart. He has that thing that they'd all pay for but can't buy: on sta ...Show more
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Love me, love my game', says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She's a middle-ranked professional tennis player and he's a Princeton graduate who took up playing tennis at ...Show more
Game Control by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people. Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American fa ...Show more
Game Control by Lionel Shriver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
Motion of the Body through Space by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - but now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. And her previously sedentary husband Remington chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. As he jo ...Show more