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Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
When Bethia Mayfield, a spirited 12 year old living in the rigid confines of a 17th-century English Puritan settlement, meets Caleb, the young son of a Wampanoag chieftain, the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. As Bethia's father, a Calvinist minister, tri ...Show more
Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
An often humorous memoir of growing up in Australia in the 1960s that speaks to anyone who, as an unquiet adolescent, ever yearned to become a citizen of the world.
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more
Horse (HB) by Geraldine Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He tilted his desk lamp so that the light fell on the image. The head of a bright bay colt gazed out of the canvas, the expression in the eyes unusual and haunting.' A discarded painting in a roadside clean-up, forgotten bones in a research archive, and Lexington, the greatest racehorse in US history. ...Show more
March by Geraldine Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tel ...Show more
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
$24.95 AUD
Category: Environment
This is a portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women. It illustrates how male pride and power has warped the original message of a once liberating faith. The book traces a journey toward an understanding of these women, and of the often contradictory forces that shape their lives.
On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers by Geraldine Brooks
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia's greatest writersIn this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers, Tim Winton. In the Wr ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
People of the Book crosses continents and centuries to bring stories of hope amidst darkness, compassion amidst cruelty, all bound together by the discoveries made by a young Australian woman restoring an ancient Hebrew book. When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home abo ...Show more
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescu ...Show more
Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, YEAR OF WONDERS and MARCH comes a unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David's extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace. A skilful reimagining ...gracefully and intelligently told.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS 1000 BC. The Second ...Show more
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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