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Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Bethia Mayfield, a spirited 12 year old living in the rigid confines of a 17th-century English Puritan settlement, meets Caleb, the young son of a Wampanoag chieftain, the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. As Bethia's father, a Calvinist minister, tri ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'He tilted his desk lamp so that the light fell on the image. The head of a bright bay colt gazed out of the canvas, the expression in the eyes unusual and haunting.' A discarded painting in a roadside clean-up, forgotten bones in a research archive, and Lexington, the greatest racehorse in US history. ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Words & Writing
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
March by Geraldine Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tel ...Show more
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
" Frank, enraging and captivating. The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. And when her poised and sophisticated assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, YEAR OF WONDERS and MARCH comes a unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David's extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace. A skilful reimagining ...gracefully and intelligently told.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS 1000 BC. The Second ...Show more
THE BOYER LECTURES 2011 THE IDEA OF HOME by BROOKS GERALDINE
$14.95 AUD
Category: Specials
Every year, the ABC board invites a prominent Australian to present a series of radio lectures, expressing their thoughts on major social, cultural, scientific or political issues. In 2011 the 52nd Boyer Lectures were delivered by Geraldine Brooks, an Australian author and newspaper journalist currently ...Show more
The Idea of Home by Geraldine Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Boyer Lectures
For the Boyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous countries to being a writer of several award w ...Show more
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." - Alice Hoffman, The Washington Post A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King Davi ...Show more