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Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the compelling and confronting story of a sister who risks her marriage to save her morbidly obese brother. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize ...Show more
Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician's heart. He has that thing that they'd all pay for but can't buy: on sta ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
Motion of the Body through Space by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - but now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. And her previously sedentary husband Remington chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. As he jo ...Show more
Ordinary Decent Criminals by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a bold and savage story of the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland. Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad, Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General
“The Cassandra of American letters.”- New York Times When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief? Both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties, ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Fat and ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Sa ...Show more
The Standing Chandelier: A Novella by Lionel Shriver
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Category: General
Condition: **NEW** 'This early stocking filler of a novel ... is a brutal treat' Daily MailFrom the award-winning novelist and short story writer, Lionel Shriver, comes a literary gem, a story about love and the power of a gift. When Weston Babansky receives an extravagant engagement present from hi ...Show more