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Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt
$25.00 AUD
$55.00 (54% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
In BABEL TOWER a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN and STILL LIFE) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo fr ...Show more
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good - very good
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tr ...Show more
Sugar and Other Stories by A. S. Byatt
$10.00 AUD
$16.37 (38% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Fiction Ser.
Collected in a single volume for the first time--an unforgettable book of short stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession the explores the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it. In this book of short fictions, A. ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
$15.00 AUD
$34.95 (57% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of ...Show more
The Game by A. S. Byatt
$10.00 AUD
$13.08 (23% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: King Penguin Ser.
Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour who loved them both. Years later Simon re-enters their lives via a television programme on snakes and intrudes into their ...Show more
The Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A. S. Byatt's short stories never fail to delight- but this new collection brings shivers as well as magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their childhood fears and memories and the strange thin ...Show more
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