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A Grief Observed - Readers' Edition by C. S. Lewis; Jenna Bailey; Maureen Freely; Hilary Mantel; Jessica Martin; Kate Saunders; Francis Spufford; Rowan Williams
$23.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In response, he wrote this journal, freely confessing his pain, ...Show more
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had th ...Show more
Cahokia Jazz - A Novel by Francis Spufford
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and The Financial Times From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be d ...Show more
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of t ...Show more
I May be Some Time : Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
$24.95 AUD
Category: British
When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the English imagination. Despite wars and social change, despite recent debunking, it is still there. Conventional histories of polar exploration tend to trace the laborious expeditions across the ma ...Show more
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
2021 Booker Longlist 1944. It's a Saturday lunchtime on Bexford High Street. The Woolworths has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans, and a crowd has gathered to see the first new metal in a long time. Everything else has been melted down for the war effort.An instant later, the crowd is gone. Incinera ...Show more
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Francis Spufford
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, ha ...Show more
The Antarctic : An anthology by Francis Spufford (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies & Journals
"The Antarctic" features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the South Pole. Contributors include British, American, Australian, Scandinavian, Japanese and Russian explorers such as Er ...Show more
The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The Child that Books Built is Francis Spufford's celebrated memoir and investigation into childhood and reading.
The Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a h ...Show more
True Stories - And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with p ...Show more
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