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The Idea of Home by Geraldine Brooks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Boyer Lectures
For the Boyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous countries to being a writer of several award w ...Show more
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." - Alice Hoffman, The Washington Post A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King Davi ...Show more
Year Of Wonders (Collins Modern Classics) by Geraldine Brooks
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. In the spring of 1666, a bolt of infected cloth carries the plague from London to the quiet ...Show more
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers endure a self-imposed quarantine to keep the disease from sp ...Show more