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A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
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
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
House of Names by Colm Toibin
$19.99 NZD
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
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
'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 Toibin
$25.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any ...Show more
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, a magnificent new novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for hope. Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm T ib n's superb seventh novel i ...Show more
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Toibin
$44.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Silence -- The empty family -- Two women -- One minus one -- The pearl fishers -- Barcelona, 1975 -- The new Spain -- The colour of shadows -- The street.
The Magician by Colm Tóibín, Colm Toibin
$32.99 NZD
$37.99 (13% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, which had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his fla ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced ...Show more
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family. From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells ...Show more
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
PROVOCATIVE, HAUNTING AND INDELIBLE, Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's cr ...Show more