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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Kate Grenville.What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously fou ...Show more
Dark Places: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and such is the nature of this intractable universe that the only thing you can start with is yourself. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian’s Story, is ...Show more
Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Kate Grenville's collection of Elizabeth Macarthur's letters, the inspiration for her bestselling, award-winning novel A Room Made of Leaves. These letters were the starting point for Kate Grenville's bestselling novel A Room Made of Leaves. They inspired the portrait of her imagined Elizabeth Macarthu ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & True Stories
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again! When Kate ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things fitted together. He never called me Dolly, the way the others did, only my full and proper name.Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in th ...Show more
The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfectionis the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage--two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mist ...Show more
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