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A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
House of Names by Colm Toibin
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister ...Show more
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was ...Show more
Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Mothers and Sons' is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their con ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer o a member of one of New York's most prominent families o is living the life that has always been expected of him- he is a successful lawyer engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited a ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín, Colm Toibin
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, which had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his fla ...Show more
Vinegar Hill by Colm Toibin
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the bestselling author of Brooklyn, Colm Toibin's first collection of poetry explores travel, sexuality, religion and family. From the bestselling author of Brooklyn, Colm Toibin's first collection of poetry explores travel, sexuality, religion and family.
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