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A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
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: Gay & Bi Male 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
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, ...Show more
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Toibin
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as 'the greatest living Irishwoman' - Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both thought and deed, actively cha ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin
$20.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodóvar, born nearly a hundred years later. Tóibín studies how ...Show more
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | 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
Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. First published in 1994, Robert Gl ck's Margery Kempe is one of the most prov ...Show more
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships.Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This ...Show more
Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male 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
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, a magnificent new novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for hope. Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm T ib n's superb seventh novel i ...Show more
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in its emotion and spare in its construction . . . Tóibín has crafted an unmissable read' Sunday Herald In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of ...Show more