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Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore th ...Show more
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activ ...Show more
Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: The Maddaddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The narrator of Margaret Atwood's riveting new novel is Snowman, self-named though not self-created. As the story opens, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bed-sheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, Snowman's ...Show more
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent Industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, ...Show more
The Blind Assassin (Hachette Essentials) by Margaret Atwood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hachette Essentials
Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist.For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Bli ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates she will, like all dissenters, be hanged or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men whose future she will change forever ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's iconic dystopian novel. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. S ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel) by Margaret Atwood
$49.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. "Everything Handmaids wear is ...Show more
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES RED TENTACLE AWARD FOR MOST PROGRESSIVE, INTELLIGENT AND ENTERTAINING SPECULATIVE NOVEL Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're i ...Show more
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and ...Show more
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus: Text Myth Series by Margaret Atwood
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Myth | Reading Level: very good
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and m ...Show more