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A Stranger City by Linda Grant
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'[A] shimmering new novel . . . Grant's book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings' The Economist 'A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it's a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times' Suzi Feay, Financial Times ...Show more
A Stranger City by Linda Grant
34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
'[A] shimmering new novel . . . Grant's book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings' The Economist 'A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it's a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times' Suzi Feay, Financial Times ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
Still Here by Linda Grant
19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Alix, arrogant, middle-aged and angry comes home to the derelict port of Liverpool as her mother lies dying. Irritably resigned to living alone for the rest of her life, she suddenly finds herself erotically attracted to a stranger. Joseph is an American architect and fellow survivor of the 1970s. Pa ...Show more
Still Here by Linda Grant
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the 2000 winner of the Orange Prize comes a powerful novel about women and sex, men and war, and miracle face creams. Alix — arrogant, angry and resigned to living alone — comes home to Liverpool and finds herself attracted to a stranger. Joseph, in the city on business, refuses to accept his alien ...Show more
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force office ...Show more
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force officer ...Show more
The Thoughtful Dresser by Linda Grant
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Fashion
'A good handbag makes the outfit. Only the rich can afford cheap shoes. The only thing worse than being skint is looking as if you're skint.' For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain empty-headed women. Yet, clothes matter, whether you are interested in fas ...Show more
Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explain.' In the early seventies, a glamoro ...Show more
Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explain.' In the early Seventies a glamorou ...Show more
We Had it So Good by Linda Grant
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Born to hardworking immigrant parents in sunny suburban Los Angeles, Stephen Newman never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the grey skies of north London, would marry Andrea for convenience and stay married, and would watch his children grow into people he cannot fathom. Over forty year ...Show more
We Had it So Good by Linda Grant
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1968 Stephen Newman arrives in England from California. Sent down from Oxford, he hurriedly marries his English girlfriend Andrea to avoid returning to America and the draft board. Over the next forty years they and their friends build lives of middle-class success until the events of late middle-age ...Show more
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