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Capturing the British Landscape - Alfred Augustus Glendening (1840-1921) by Alice Munro-Faure
$205.00 AUD
Category: Art and Photography
The life and work of Victorian landscape painter Alfred Augustus Glendening, illustrating his rapid rise from railway clerk to an acclaimed artist. Though critics often reviewed Alfred Augustus Glendening's exhibitions, very little has been written about the artist himself. Here, new and extensive r ...Show more
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Carried Away" is a dazzling selection of stories-seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought ...Show more
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary m ...Show more
Dear Life by Alice Munro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca ...Show more
Dear Life by Alice Munro
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Reading Level: good-very good
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in "Dear Life" build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ord ...Show more
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven' ...Show more
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or i ...Show more
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox far ...Show more
Lying Under the Apple Tree by Alice Munro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready". (The Times). Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of ...Show more
New Selected Stories by Alice Munro
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Written with emotion and empathy, beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, these stories are n ...Show more
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.
Queenie by Alice Munro
$3.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy ...Show more