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Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife
FS Duet by Carol Shields
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields' tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life. Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: her eccentric husband, her secretive children a ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time.'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW'An excellent biography' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Shields on Austen offers up a delicious prospect. And we are not disappointed' SCOTSMANJane Austen was one of t ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
$29.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
An observant and revealing biography of this remarkable writer whose characters are as alive today in their longings as they were two hindred years ago, when Jane Austen first gave them breath.
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court's Maze.
Mary Swann by Carol Shields
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Mary Swann, a latter day Emily Dickinson, submitted a paper bag of poems to newpaper editor Frederic Cruzzi mere hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. How could someone who led such a dull, sheltered life produce these works of genius? Four very different people search for the elusive answer. ...Show more
The Collected Stories by Carol Shields
$30.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work.In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers t ...Show more
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story o ...Show more
Unless by Carol Shields
$23.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep? For all of her life, 44 year old ...Show more