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A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
Bad Blood : A Walk Along the Irish Border by Toibin, Colm
$23.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm T#65533;ib#65533;n walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in a ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village. Eilis has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Her ambition is noted by the parish priest, Father Flood. He arranges for Eilis to travel to America, where a job opportunity has arisen in New York. Brooklyn is ...Show more
Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudi, Miro, Picasso, Casals and Dali. It also explores the hist ...Show more
House of Names by Colm Toibin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
$28.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Toibin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Eilis Lacey Ser.
'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' The Times'A masterful novel full of longing and regret... Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' Douglas StuartLong Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to ...Show more
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'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
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships.Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This ...Show more
Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Mothers and Sons' is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their con ...Show more