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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: 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
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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: Fiction | 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 by Kate Grenville
$23.95 AUD
Category: 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
Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Lilian's Story: Text Classic by Kate Grenville
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I was still not permitted to decline those tennis parties. 'You must not close off your options,' Father said, and tweaked at one of the unflattering frills on my dress. In her much-loved debut novel, Kate Grenville took inspiration from the legendary Sydney eccentric Bea Miles to fashion the fictional ...Show more
Making Stories : How ten Australian novels were written by Kate Grenville & Sue Woolfe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Reference
Good writers make writing look easy - but is it? Anyone learning to write should be encouraged by "Making Stories" - it shows that even great novelists come to their books by a long and uncertain process. The book shows ten acclaimed Australian authors at work, painstakingly constructing their books fro ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$23.99 AUD
Category: 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
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$29.99 AUD
Category: 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
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 (H/B) by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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