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An Irresponsible Age by Lavinia Greenlaw
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is the powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's much-praised debut novel "Mary George of Allnorthover". An "Irresponsible Age", Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea just ...Show more
In the City of Love's Sleep by Lavinia Greenlaw
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Iris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her husband while bringing up two daughters in a house that's falling down. Raif is a stalled academic, as uncertain of the past as he is the future, whose girlfriend is about to move in. They meet by chance, nothing important is said, y ...Show more
In the City of Love's Sleep by Lavinia Greenlaw
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Iris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her husband while bringing up two daughters. Raif is a stalled academic, as uncertain of the past as he is of the future, whose girlfriend is about to move in with him. When Iris and Raif first meet by chance, Iris suddenly turns away ...Show more
Mary George of Allnorthover by Lavinia Greenlaw
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Lavinia Greenlaw puts before us the monochrome, immemorial middle England of the 1970s in all its dowdy glory, and has us see through the mercurial, bewitching Mary Georges eyes how a seemingly static landscape is suddenly illuminated by the most vivid bursts of energy, colour and drama. Punks torch fla ...Show more
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland by Lavinia Greenlaw
$29.95 NZD
Category: No Category
Lavinia Greenlaw's selection from Morris's Icelandic Journal ('the best book of travel written by an English poet', and the least known) is interposed with her own 'questions of travel', which follow the footprints of Morris's prose, responding to its surfaces and undercurrents, extending its horizons. ...Show more
Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the prizewinning poet and writer, a concise and elegant feminist polemic. Part memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is a rigorous and lyrical work of self-investigation. Lavinia Greenlaw sets out to explore the impulse to say something, to write or sing, and finds herself confront ...Show more
The Built Moment by Lavinia Greenlaw
$36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Lavinia Greenlaw's last collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on 'the achievement of the provisional'. The Built Moment explores what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the moments we fix as memories, fixing too their joy and pain. The first s ...Show more
The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway...the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotion ready to dissolve into sleep. In The Importance of Mu ...Show more
The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"The Importance of Music to Girls" tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into - getting drunk, falling in love, cutting our hair, wanting to change the world - as well as the darker side of the adolescent years: loneliness, bullying, getting arrested. Lavinia Greenlaw remembers the music ...Show more
The Vast Extent - On Seeing And Not Seeing Further by Lavinia Greenlaw
$50.00 NZD
Category: No Category
From the renowned poet, novelist and memoirist, and ingenious constellation of writings on light, image, seeing . . . and the unseen. From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each i ...Show more
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