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So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shep Knacker has long saved for 'the Afterlife', an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep finally announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without ...Show more
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin comes the most entertaining novel about illness and death one's ever likely to read and asks the uncomfortable fiscal question: how much is one life worth? Shepherd Knacker has been saving all his working life for a one way ticket away ...Show more
The Female of the Species by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it. Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In this eagerly awaited new novel, Lionel Shriver, the Orange Prize-winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the implications, large and small, of whom we choose to love. Using a playful parallel-universe structure, The ...Show more
The Standing Chandelier: A Novella by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Condition: **NEW** 'This early stocking filler of a novel ... is a brutal treat' Daily MailFrom the award-winning novelist and short story writer, Lionel Shriver, comes a literary gem, a story about love and the power of a gift. When Weston Babansky receives an extravagant engagement present from hi ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
$23.95 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Tie-in Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts the story of how Kevin came to be Kevin. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her ...Show more