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Animal People(Prize winner People's Choice 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) by Charlotte Wood
23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Why I can't review Animal People. 'I read Charlotte Wood's novel Animal People twice. I think it's one of the best contemporary novels I have read. But I cannot review it. I tried a number of times and failed each time. I only recently realised why this is. I don't want to review Animal People. I want t ...Show more
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collectio ...Show more
Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood
29.99 AUD
Category: Food
Love and Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has learned over more than twenty years about cooking and the pleasures of simple food well made. In this age of gastro-porn and the fetishisation of food, the pressure to be as expert as the chefs we've turned into celebrities can feel over ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small re ...Show more
The Children by Charlotte Wood
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When their father is critically injured, foreign correspondent Mandy and her siblings return home, bringing with them the remnants and patterns of childhood. Mandy has lived away from the country for many years. Her head is filled with images of terror and war, and her homecoming to the quiet country to ...Show more
The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life by Charlotte Wood
34.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
An inspiring work about creativity and resiliance from the multi-award-winning author of The Weekend. 'A rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears and profound self-discoveries of creativity - through making or building anything that wasn't there before, any imaginative explo ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hu ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Good. Slight yellowing/foxing on edges of pages. "A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Savage: think Atwood in the outback' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train'An unforgettable reading experience' Liane Moriarity, author of Big Little Lies'Ferocious... recalls the early Elena Ferrante' NPR'A masterpiece' Guardian'Devastating' Economist She hears her own thick voice deep insid ...Show more
The Submerged Cathedral by Charlotte Wood
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. The Submerged Cathedral is a superb, enthralling novel of love, tragedy and atonement from the acclaimed author of The Children. Set me as a seal on your heart, for love is stronger than death.' Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast continent a ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A compelling and vivid look at the friendships we make as women. Honest, unsettling and, like all good literature, had me asking questions about life and myself." Heather Rose, austhor of The Museum of Modern Love, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. People went on about death bringing friends together, b ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . . Despite the three women knowing ea ...Show more