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22 produkter
Infidelities
Av Kirsty Gunn
Häftad, 2016
142 kr
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This new collection of stories offers a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales of lust, deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can chip away at human relationships.In a series of interwoven dramas, we find mothers yearning for adventure, for the …
Caroline's Bikini
Av Kirsty Gunn
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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Caroline's Bikini is the tale of a classic love affair; a swirling cocktail of obsession and imagination.The moment that Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford - a glamorous housewife, hostess and landlady - he falls into unrequited love, a story as old as …
Dangerous Dog
A Short Story from the Collection, Reader, I Married Him
Av Kirsty Gunn
E-bok, 2016
79 kr
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A short story by Kirsty Gunn from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Dangerous Dog’, a fitness instructor teaches teenage boys how to handle a pit bull terrier by telling them Jane Eyre’s story.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married …
Rain
Av Kirsty Gunn
Häftad, 1994
179 kr
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A twelve-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The days are long and hot and while the parents entertain their friends the two children are left alone to play and dream and let the future come down upon them . . .This is a story of loss. Of how families come …
Big Music
Av Kirsty Gunn
Häftad, 2013
166 kr
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'The hills only come back the same: I don't mind . . .' begins Kirsty Gunn's The Big Music, a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction can affect us. Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey …
Big Music
Av Kirsty Gunn
E-bok, 2012
115 kr
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The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes …
Infidelities
Av Kirsty Gunn
E-bok, 2014
115 kr
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This new collection of stories offers a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales of lust, deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can chip away at human relationships.In a series of interwoven dramas, we find mothers yearning for adventure, for the …
Caroline's Bikini
Av Kirsty Gunn
E-bok, 2018
99 kr
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Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work."Alright" I said, "I'll try..." This is how Emily Stuart opens the intricately involved account of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a tale …
Keepsake
Av Kirsty Gunn
Häftad, 1998
133 kr
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In hypnotic and mesmerizing language, Kirsty Gunn explores the dark world of a young girl who has grown up with a mother dependent on storytelling and the oblivion of addiction to cope with the memory of lost love, the girl's father. Raised on deceptive tales of happiness, the younger woman is …
Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection
30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot
Av Philip Hoare, Kirsty Gunn m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2023
177 kr
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22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3''s The Essay , an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and …
Goblin Market
An Illustrated Poem
Av Christina Rossetti, Kirsty Gunn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
145 kr
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The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, who are tempted by the fruit sold by the goblin merchants. In this fully illustrated and beautiful volume, illustrator Georgie McAusland brings the words and story to life.SHORTLISTED in the V&A …
Such a Sweet Singing
Poetry to Empower Every Woman
Av Kirsty Gunn
Inbunden, 2022
145 kr
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A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the women who read them.This transformative collection of poems by female poets through the ages sing to us across the centuries. These poems span the worlds of desire, love and friendship, of responsibility, hardship and care, of …
My Katherine Mansfield Project
Av Kirsty Gunn
Inbunden, 2015
200 kr
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When novelist Kirsty Gunn received a Randell Fellowship from the British Academy and Carnegie Foundation in 2009 she returned to New Zealand to spend the winter in Wellington, near the childhood home of Katherine Mansfield, the writer to whom she'd always felt most connected. In this lyrical essay, …
Pretty Ugly
Av Kirsty Gunn
E-bok, 2024
172 kr
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Contradictions (both real and apparent), oppositions, enigmas, provocations, challenges——this is the kind of material that makes a life, and is the kind of material that, in fiction, one is never quite sure of. With Pretty Ugly, Kirsty Gunn reminds us again that she is a master of just such stuff, …
How Maxine Learned to Love her Legs
And Other Tales Of Growing Up
Av Hilary Bailey, Sally Cameron m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
32 kr
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Exploring a host of female parts, rites of passage, love, loss, danger, revelations, strange relationships, the pleasures and pains of growing up female, a fantastic collection of short stories from some of the best women writers today dealing with all aspects of female life from youth to old …
Boy and the Sea
Av Kirsty Gunn
Häftad, 2006
96 kr
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From the author of Rain and Featherstone comes a story of a sun-drenched, sea-soaked day which changes a boy's life forever. At the start of a summer's day, Ward is waiting on the beach. His friend, Alex, wants him to come to a party at Alison's where there'll be girls and drinks and the …
This Place You Return To Is Home
Av Kirsty Gunn
Häftad, 2000
192 kr
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The author of Rain and The Keepsake, Kirsty Gunn has received international acclaim and established herself as a uniquely powerful and significant young voice - "a young master," in the words of the Los Angeles Times. Now Gunn gives us a collection of short stories that astonish with the resonant …
