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Memory : An anthology by A S Byatt & Harriet Harvey Wood (eds)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and by writers with expertise in different fields - from ...Show more
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work by A. S. Byatt
$40.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
An alluring and atmospheric enquiry into the creative impulse -- as seen through the work and lives of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris -- by one of our greatest novelists. This ravishing little book, glowing with colour and generously illustrated throughout, opens a window on to the lives, passio ...Show more
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (Myth Series) by A. S. Byatt
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Ragnarok is the story of the end of the world. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves. What more relevant myth could any modern writer find? As the bombs rain down in the Battle of Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is strugg ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession a deeply affecting story of a singular family. When children's book author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and frie ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of ...Show more
The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories by A S Byatt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale.
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories by BYATT A S
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories , edited by A. S. Byatt, herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically take the English short story as its theme. The 37 stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging f ...Show more
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