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Dark Places by Kate Grenville
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary 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
Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Lilian Singer, born into a stifling household which totally fails to subdue her. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the household but Lilian's sights are set on education, love and - finally - her own transcendent forms of independence.
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary 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
Searching for the Secret River: A Writing Memoir by Kate Grenville
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | 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 Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
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