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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
" These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." --Los Angeles Times Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Sm ...Show more
Changing My Mind : Occasional essays by Zadie Smith
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does 'soulful' mean? Is " ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has endless fascination and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political ...Show more
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also delivers a sophisticated commentary on race, gender, class, celebrity and power' Telegraph on Swing Time 'Smith is virtuosic, as ever, on family and friendship, ...Show more
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$12.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
Martha and Hanwell (Pocket Penguins Series) by Zadie Smith
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Boo ...Show more
N W by Zadie Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet af ...Show more
NW by Zadie Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a city. The North-West corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. And th ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Set in New England mainly and London partly, "On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Bea ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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