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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
Category: Fiction
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Kate Grenville.What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously fou ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
Category: Fiction
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
Category: Fiction
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
Category: Audio Books
In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What follows is a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented.Grenville's Elizabeth Macarthur is a passionate woman managing her complicated life-marriage to a ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves (MP3) by Kate Grenville
Category: Audio Books
In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What follows is a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented.Grenville's Elizabeth Macarthur is a passionate woman managing her complicated life-marriage to a ...Show more
Bearded Ladies / Dreamhouse: Omnibus Edition by Kate Grenville
Category: Fiction
Bearded Ladies and Dreamhouse are combined here in one volume, back to-back. Bearded Ladies was Kate's first book, a collection of short stories. Dreamhouse evokes the mystery and menace underpinning everyday life, and the Tuscan 'dreamhouse' is the stuff of nightmares.
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
Category: Fiction
Albion Gidley Singer creates his world as a vast collection of facts; facts he uses to support his own power and status. After an awkward childhood, aware that he is a disappointment to his father, he acquires, the trappings of respectability, success in business and a family. But in Albion's soul remai ...Show more
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
Category: Fiction
The author, with her incomparable skill and insight, introduces us to a man - a respectable man, wrapped snugly in the costume of status - and opens him up to show us the fear and hatred that drive him. 'Dark Places' revists Grenville's earlier work 'Lilian's Story', but this time we see the events unfo ...Show more
Dark Places by Kate Grenville
Category: Fiction
In the award-winning Dark Places, celebrated Australian author Kate Grenville tells the tale of Albion Gidley Singer--a man with a comically grand exterior who believes he has the right, and the duty, to conquer the mocking flesh of any woman. Even his own daughter.
Dark Places: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and such is the nature of this intractable universe that the only thing you can start with is yourself. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian’s Story, is ...Show more