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Girl by Edna O'Brien
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Girl, Edna O'Brien's courageous new novel is an unforgettable depiction of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a gi ...Show more
Girl by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl onc ...Show more
Good Weekends Away 2009 by O'BRIEN Kerrie (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
At the end of a long working week, a weekend away is a welcome prospect. The new edition of Good Weekends Away presents independent reviews of more than 100 of Australia's best short breaks, as reviewed by journalists from The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and Good Weekend.
Hard Ground by Michael O'Brien
$50.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Michael O'Brien got out of his car one day in 1975 and sought the acquaintance of a man named John Madden who lived under an overpass. Their initial contact grew into a friendship that O'Brien chronicled for the Miami News, where he began his career as a staff photographer. O'Brien's photo essays convey ...Show more
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Perhaps the best book to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict. First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam established Tim O'Brien's reputation as ...Show more
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of 'Going After Cacciato' and 'The Things They Carried', which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery. In a remote lakeside cabin deep in the Minnesota forests, Kathy Wade is comforting he ...Show more
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt an ...Show more
Joyce's Women by Edna O'Brien
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.