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A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
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
$20.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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
$22.99 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
House of Names by Colm Toibin
$19.99 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
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
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
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'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
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer o a member of one of New York's most prominent families o is living the life that has always been expected of him- he is a successful lawyer engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited a ...Show more
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Collection
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and ...Show more
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, his own childhood.The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family's retreat by the sea at Cush, is ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
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]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Collection
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 at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures ...Show more
The South by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Collection
A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning tale is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home.Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland ...Show more