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Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Bryon's name is part of the English language. The word 'Byronic' suggests excess, diabolical deeds and a rebelliousness answering neither to king nor commoner. Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his ...Show more
Country Girl - A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was und ...Show more
Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enoug ...Show more
Girl by Edna O'Brien
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Girl, Edna O'Brien's courageous new novel is an unforgettable depiction of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a gi ...Show more
Girl by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl onc ...Show more
Night by Edna O'Brien
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering ...Show more
Paradise (Faber Stories) by Edna O'BRIEN
$9.00 AUD
Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.' Each day, while the others are out at sea, she is taught to swim. Eventually, she will be expected to perform. The pressure ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The trilogy follows the lives of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan from the confines of a convent school in the Irish countryside to the bright lights of Dublin, and on to the unexpected challenges of married life in London. These are novels about innocence and youth, love and passion, dreams and r ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see th ...Show more
The Country Girls (h/B) by Edna O'Brien
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Classic Series
This novel tells the story of two Irish girls, Caithleen Brady (Cait) and Bridget Brennan (Baba), and their escape from a life filled with the countryside and the convent, to the allure of Dublin.
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/ Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handso ...Show more
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a wanted war criminal, masquerading as a healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this searing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequence of that fatal attraction. This is a story about love, the artif ...Show more
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