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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$48.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
The author, with her incomparable skill and insight, introduces us to a man - a respectable man, wrapped snugly in the costume of status - and opens him up to show us the fear and hatred that drive him. 'Dark Places' revists Grenville's earlier work 'Lilian's Story', but this time we see the events unfo ...Show more
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Albion Gidley Singer creates his world as a vast collection of facts; facts he uses to support his own power and status. After an awkward childhood, aware that he is a disappointment to his father, he acquires, the trappings of respectability, success in business and a family. But in Albion's soul remai ...Show more
Dark Places: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Text Classics
This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and such is the nature of this intractable universe that the only thing you can start with is yourself. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian’s Story, is ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again! When Kate ...Show more
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in the fine house her father is so proud of, a strong-willed young woman who's certain where her future lies. She's known Jack Langland since she was a child, and always loved him. ...Show more
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things fitted together. He never called me Dolly, the way the others did, only my full and proper name.Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in th ...Show more
Sarah Thornhill (a sequel to The Secret River) by Kate Grenville
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
'From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things fitted together. He never called me Dolly, the way the others did, only my full and proper name.' Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in ...Show more
Searching for the Secret River: A Writing Memoir by Kate Grenville
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kate Grenville's The Secret River moved and exhilarated thousands of readers when it was published in 2005. They marvelled at the subtlety of its language, and the power of Grenville's storytelling. And they recognised that this simple tale of a poor convict family settling on the banks of the Hawkesbur ...Show more
The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville
$30.00 NZD
Category: General
Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us- other people's perfumes, and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners. On a ...Show more
The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfectionis the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage--two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection ...Show more