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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A stunning new hardback edition of Margaret Atwood's classic work of true crime - 'an explosive mixture of murder, sex and class conflict' (Daily Mail) soon to be a major Netflix series Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Orange Prize Sixteen years have passed since teenaged Grace w ...Show more
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sometimes I whisper it over to myself- Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. In 1843, a 16-year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the ju ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$48.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: near fine
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.
Curious Pursuits by Margaret Atwood
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Essays and journalism, including the Afghanistan journey that sowed the seeds of The Handmaid
Curious Pursuits : Occasional Writing by Margaret Atwood
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
' Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I can't refuse. So in some ways this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability to say no.' Collected and published in the UK for th ...Show more
Fourteen Days: A Unique Collaborative Novel From a Star-Studded Cast of Writers by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (eds)
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Led by Margaret Atwood, a star-studded cast create a dazzling, heartwarming response to the darkness cast by the pandemic. Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the pandemic, Fourteen Days is a dazzling, heartwarming novel with an unusual twist- each character has been secretly written ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
$38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
Good Bones by Margaret Atwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology, amongst other matters. We hear Gertrude's version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves,and a reincarnate ...Show more
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
** Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction **Selected as a Book of the Year -- Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, i magazine 'It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.' Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His ...Show more
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare
Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. Selected as a Book of the Year - Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, and, i magazine. 'It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.' Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His ...Show more
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace*Rabbit superheroes. A theory of masks and capes. Victorian otherlands. From her 1940s childhood to her time at Harvard, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with SF. In 2010, she delivered a lecture series at Emory University called 'In Other ...Show more