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A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Dubliners by James Joyce. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that ha ...Show more
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was ...Show more
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, a magnificent new novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for hope. Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm T ib n's superb seventh novel i ...Show more
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and ...Show more
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, his own childhood.The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family's retreat by the sea at Cush, is ...Show more
The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín, Colm Toibin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, which had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his fla ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures ...Show more
The South by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning tale is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home.Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland ...Show more
The South: Picador Classic by Colm Toibin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has ...Show more
The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks.Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the ...Show more
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