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Animal People by Charlotte Wood
Category: Fiction
"He could not find one single more word to say. I just want to be free. He could not say those words. They had already withered in his mind, turned to dust. He did not even know, he marvelled now, what the hell those words had meant." Charlotte Wood takes a character from her bestselling book The Childr ...Show more
Animal People(Prize winner People's Choice 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) by Charlotte Wood
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
Art Deco 1910 - 1939 by Charlotte Benton (Editor); Tim Benton (Editor); Ghislaine Wood (Editor)
Category: Interior Design
Art deco--the style of the flapper, the luxury ocean liner, and the skyscraper--came to epitomize the glamour, luxury, and hedonism of the Jazz Age. It burst onto the world stage at the 1925 Exposition internationale des art decoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris and quickly swept the globe. Its in ...Show more
Art Deco 1910-1939 by Charlotte Benton & Tim Benton & Ghislaine Wood (eds.)
Category: Design
Embracing fashion, design, film, art and architecture, Art Deco 1910-1939 celebrates the style that took the world by storm in the interwar years. With breathtaking illustrations and essays both thought-provoking and scholarly, this will stand as the definitive book on Art Deco.
Brothers and Sisters by Charlotte Wood
Category: Biography
Love, envy, resentment, regret, tenderness - established, bestselling and award-winning writers explore the tensions, alliances and affections between siblings in this dazzling collection of stories with contributions from Robert Drewe, Roger McDonald, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Cate Kennedy and many more. ...Show more
Brothers and Sisters by Charlotte Wood
Category: Biography
'Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self ...Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you ...You recognise one another, this is your relief and ...Show more
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
Category: Classic 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
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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
Luminous Solution 18 copy pack by Charlotte Wood
Category: Culture and Ideas
Includes 18 copies of The Luminous Solution and custom display piece.
Stone Yard Devotional ( Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Charlotte Wood
Category: General Fiction
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 religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2016 by Charlotte Wood
Category: Languages and Reference
In The Best Australian Stories 2016, Charlotte Wood, author of The Natural Way of Things (winner of the 2016 Stella Prize, and the 2016 Indie Book of the Year), presents twenty pieces of outstanding short fiction. Featuring the work of exciting new voices alongside stories by established favourites, thi ...Show more
The Children by Charlotte Wood
Category: Fiction
'Who said Happiness is the light shining on the water? The water is cold and dark and deep.'Three adult siblings return home to the country town of their childhood when their father is critically injured in a fall. They each have their own reasons for dreading the homecoming, and bring with them the rem ...Show more