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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: General | 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
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Kate Grenville.What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously fou ...Show more
Dark Places: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Kate Grenville's collection of Elizabeth Macarthur's letters, the inspiration for her bestselling, award-winning novel A Room Made of Leaves. These letters were the starting point for Kate Grenville's bestselling novel A Room Made of Leaves. They inspired the portrait of her imagined Elizabeth Macarthu ...Show more
Joan Makes History by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: UQP Modern Classics Ser.
This is Australia's past as you won't read it in any history book. Joan pops up in all over famous moments and gives her irreverent female version of them. She remakes history in her own image and asks: who gets written into history, who gets written out, and why?
Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'Dazzling fiction of universal appeal' Patrick White 'A work of considerable beauty and power...told with great honesty and virtuosity.' - New York Times Book Review This is the story of Lilian Singer, born on 'a wild night in the year of Federation' into a stifling household which totally fails to subd ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | 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
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
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
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In this vivid, intimate, narrative memoir bestselling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville celebrates her mother's life. 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 ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder: Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more