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A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien
22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
After leaving for a religious community in Belgium, a young woman remembers her childhood in rural Ireland. She reflects on the rituals of village life, the people she encountered, and the enchanting beauty of the landscape. Her mind then turns to the shocking event that led to her departure.
August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Banned in several countries upon first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. B ...Show more
Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal. Everything abo ...Show more
Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
19.99 NZD
39.99 (50% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enoug ...Show more
Country Girl - A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was und ...Show more
Girl by Edna O'Brien
32.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
Girl, Edna O'Brien's courageous new novel is an unforgettable depiction of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a gi ...Show more
Girl by Edna O'Brien
24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews
** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl onc ...Show more
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
24.95 NZD
27.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
A moving and compelling novel from the acclaimed Edna O'Brien, inspired by a notorious and tragic triple murder. In the Forest, set in the west of Ireland, is the story of a young man who shoots three people dead in a forest glade. The young man, Mich O'Kane, is 'not all there in the head', as one ch ...Show more
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A collection in which, a woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; and a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find ...Show more
Tales for the Telling: Irish Folk & Fairy Tales by Edna O'Brien
49.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
These 12 enchanting stories of ancient magic, daring deeds, dashing heroes, and mythical creatures sparkle with wit, nonsense, and naughtiness. Tales for the Telling features traditional Irish folk and fairy tales. In "Two Giants," Irish giant Finn, no longer in the first flush of youth, is challenged ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see th ...Show more
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
When a wanted war criminal, masquerading as a healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this searing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequence of that fatal attraction. This is a story about love, the artif ...Show more
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