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Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
From Where I Fell by Susan Johnson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Two deep, bright, razor-sharp women at opposite ends of the earth tearing the band-aids off their souls, exposing truths and lies buried beneath marriage, motherhood and the sacrificial siege of mid-to-late-life maintenance. This is Susan Johnson at her most original, daring, bone-deep and deliciously ...Show more
Landing by Susan Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Jonathan Lott is confused. His wife has left him for a woman and he doesn't like living alone. Is it true that an about-to-be-divorced man in possession of a good fortune is in need of a new wife? Would Penny Collins do, divorced herself, school teacher and frustrated artist? What about beautiful Anna, ...Show more
Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"You're pathetic,' her brother said. 'Still bleating about what mummy and daddy did to you when you're almost old enough to retire. Are you still going to be blaming your parents when you're seventy? Life's too short, Liz.' After years of patient, passionate effort, Elizabeth Barton's career as a cerami ...Show more
My Hundred Lovers by Susan Johnson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Fair. Yellowing and foxing to of pages. Lyrical and exquisite, My Hundred Lovers captures the sheer wonder of life, desire and love. A woman, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, reflects on her days with one hundred scenes from a life adding up to a simple ...Show more
On Beauty by Susan Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
In On Beauty, Susan Johnson explores the role of beauty in our lives, and in her life in particular: "Sometimes I think my whole life has been one long search for beauty. I am Australian and as such I should be embarrassed to write a line like that, in a land where one must speak of beauty in whispers." ...Show more
On Beauty (On Series) by Susan Johnson
$17.00 AUD
Category: On Series | Series: On Ser.
Part of a series that pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with important themes in life, this exploration reflects on the concept of beauty. From both a personal and universal perspective, this essay analyzes what beauty means in Australian society, where discussing the topic is consi ...Show more
The Landing by Susan Johnson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Jonathan Lott is confused. His wife has left him for a woman and he doesn't like living alone. Is it true that an about-to-be-divorced man in possession of a good fortune is in need of a new wife? Would Penny Collins do, divorced herself, school teacher and frustrated artist? What about beautiful Anna, ...Show more
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