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A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry 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
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
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
Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
'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
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
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: fiction a-z | 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: fiction a-z | 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 Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | 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 Master by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | 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: fiction a-z | 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
The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Picador Collection
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks.Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the ...Show more
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