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A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After leaving for a religious community in Belgium, a young woman remembers her childhood in rural Ireland. She reflects on the rituals of village life, the people she encountered, and the enchanting beauty of the landscape. Her mind then turns to the shocking event that led to her departure.
August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Banned in several countries upon first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. B ...Show more
Byron In Love by Edna O'Brien
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Edna O'Brien has always had a gift for writing about affairs of the heart' Guardian 'Her boldly coloured portrait rewrites his life with all the brio and elan for which her novels are renowned' The Herald 'Hugely enjoyable' Daily Telegraph BYRON IN LOVE - the nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of By ...Show more
Dubliners by Malachy (AFT) Edna (INT); McCourt James; O'Brien Joyce
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Girl by Edna O'Brien
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Girl, Edna O'Brien's courageous new novel is an unforgettable depiction of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a gi ...Show more
Girl by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl onc ...Show more
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt an ...Show more
Night by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering ...Show more
Paradise (Faber Stories) by Edna O'BRIEN
$7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.' Each day, while the others are out at sea, she is taught to swim. Eventually, she will be expected to perform. The pressure ...Show more
Tales for the Telling: Irish Folk & Fairy Tales by Edna O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Classics
These 12 enchanting stories of ancient magic, daring deeds, dashing heroes, and mythical creatures sparkle with wit, nonsense, and naughtiness. Tales for the Telling features traditional Irish folk and fairy tales. In "Two Giants," Irish giant Finn, no longer in the first flush of youth, is challenged ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see th ...Show more
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a wanted war criminal, masquerading as a healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this searing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequence of that fatal attraction. This is a story about love, the artif ...Show more