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Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
One of the Guardian's Best Books of the Year: Personal writings by the anonymous author who became a literary phenomenon with My Brilliant Friend. The writer known as Elena Ferrante has taken pains to hide her identity in the hope that readers would focus on her body of work. But in this volume, she in ...Show more
Frantumaglia: Fragments: on Writing and Reading by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Essays & Letters
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journ ...Show more
Incidental Inventions (HB) by Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein (Translator); Andrea Ucini (Illustrator)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she penned short pieces, the subjects of which were suggested by edit ...Show more
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Neapolitan Quartet | Reading Level: very good
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship. Elena Ferrante's piercingly honest portrait of two girls' path into woma ...Show more
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein (translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Neapolitan Novels 1 | Reading Level: very good
Premiering November 2018 as an HBO series. Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our ti ...Show more
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
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Category: General | Series: My Brilliant Friend | Reading Level: good
"My friendship with Lila began the day we decided to go up the dark stairs that led, step after step, flight after flight, to the door of Don Achille's apartment...I waited to see if Lila would have second thoughts and turn back. I knew what she wanted to do; I had hoped that she would forget about it, ...Show more
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Inspired by one of Elena Ferrante's earlier novels, The Lost Daughter, this is a bewitching fable for girls and boys, but also for Elena Ferrante fans of all ages. Accompanied by full-colour illustrations by Mara Cerri, The Beach At Night is a beautiful picture book narrated by a doll named Celina. Mati ...Show more
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman's headlong descent into what she calls an 'absence of sense' after being abandoned by her husband. Olga's 'days of abandonment' become a despe ...Show more
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
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Category: General
Soon to be a major film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal.
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Leda is a middle-aged, divorced mother devoted to her work as an English professor. After the departure of her grown-up daughters, she takes a holiday on the Italian coast. But after a few days things become unsettling; on the beach she encounters a family whose brash behaviour proves menacing. Leda is ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
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Category: General
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naple ...Show more