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2025 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Neri Pozza 1881, Currabubula, Nuovo Galles del Sud. Nata nel sudore e nella fatica di un allevamento di pecore in un villaggio sperduto dell'Australia meridionale, Dolly Maunder è diversa dai suoi fratelli e sorelle. È brillante, testarda, ha un carattere selvaggio come la sua chioma di riccioli rossi, un fiume scintillante di luce. Fin da bambina sa qual è la vita che non vuole vivere: quella di sua madre, che da anni non accenna un sorriso, desolata come le tre vie che compongono la loro cittadina, schiava delle esigenze di un marito e di sette figli. Dolly non vuole essere moglie. Perlomeno, non solo. Sogna un futuro diverso, vuole creare qualcosa che le appartenga veramente, che la faccia sentire padrona del suo destino. Quel continente sperduto e crudele in cui è nata, tuttavia, non la tradisce, diventando scenario delle sue prove d'autonomia: Dolly si trova a gestire un negozio, un pub, poi un hotel di lusso in una delle zone più ricche d'Australia. Ma dopo l'ascesa, segue l'inevitabile caduta: per una donna come lei, infaticabile e ambiziosa, l'indipendenza è un prezzo che si paga ogni giorno. Come sfogliando le pagine di un album familiare, Kate Grenville dedica un romanzo alla figura di sua nonna Dolly, irrequieta e coraggiosa, che custodisce dentro di sé le storie di mille altre donne di ogni tempo. € 19,00
Scontato: € 18,05
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2023 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: BEAT Durante la ristrutturazione di una residenza storica di Sydney, viene rinvenuta una scatola di latta incastrata dietro una trave del sottotetto. La scatola, piena di vecchi fogli quasi illeggibili, contiene le memorie di Elizabeth Macarthur, moglie di John Macarthur, passato alla storia come primo colono e padre dell'industria laniera australiana. Il ritrovamento è eccezionale, perché svela ciò che nessun documento della storiografia ufficiale osa raccontare: la vita di una donna straordinaria, capace di amministrare un'azienda agricola enorme, allevando pecore da lana pregiata e gestendo una manodopera composta da galeotti abbrutiti. Gelosamente conservate, sottratte alla furia di un mondo in cui il ruolo della donna si perdeva in un desolante nulla, le memorie diventano la finestra attraverso cui è possibile affacciarsi su un'esistenza non comune. Elizabeth nasce nel 1766, figlia di un agricoltore del piccolo villaggio di Bridgerule, nel Devon. Ancora bambina, viene accolta nella casa del pastore, dove cresce in modo analogo a quello della quasi contemporanea Jane Austen. È qui che incontra e sposa il sottufficiale John Macarthur, un uomo irrequieto e sgradevole. Un anno dopo i due sposi, con il figlio in fasce, salpano verso la colonia penale del Nuovo Galles del Sud, appena istituita: poco piú di due granelli d'Inghilterra in mezzo a incalcolabili miglia di terra selvaggia. € 13,50
Scontato: € 12,83
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2021 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Neri Pozza Durante la ristrutturazione di una residenza storica di Sydney, viene rinvenuta una scatola di latta sigillata e incastrata dietro una trave del sottotetto. La scatola, gremita di vecchi fogli quasi illeggibili, contiene le memorie di Elizabeth Macarthur, moglie di John Macarthur, passato alla storia come primo colono e padre dell'industria laniera australiana. Il ritrovamento è eccezionale, perché svela ciò che nessun documento della storiografia ufficiale osa raccontare: la vita di una donna straordinaria, capace di amministrare un'azienda agricola enorme, allevando pecore da lana pregiata e gestendo, con grande temperamento, una manodopera composta da galeotti abbrutiti. Gelosamente conservate, sottratte alla furia di un mondo in cui il ruolo della donna si perdeva in un desolante nulla, le memorie diventano la finestra attraverso cui è possibile affacciarsi su un'esistenza non comune. Elizabeth nasce nel 1766, figlia di un agricoltore del piccolo villaggio di Bridgerule, nel Devon. Ancora bambina, viene accolta nella casa del pastore, dove cresce in modo analogo a quello della quasi contemporanea Jane Austen. È qui che incontra e sposa il sottufficiale John Macarthur, un uomo irrequieto, sgradevole, roso dall'ambizione. Un anno dopo i due sposi, con il figlio in fasce, salpano verso la colonia penale del Nuovo Galles del Sud, appena istituita: poco più di due granelli d'Inghilterra in mezzo a incalcolabili miglia che non lo sono affatto. Un destino, per la giovane donna, approntato dalle regole sociali del tempo che non tengono in alcun conto la sua volontà. Tuttavia, n € 18,00
Scontato: € 17,10
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1919 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS € 13,45
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1918 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS € 10,60
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1917 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: PICADOR € 14,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Text Pub Co € 15,20
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1916 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS € 15,20
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Grove Pr ?A wrenching conclusion to a tough-hearted trilogy . . . Exuberant, cruel, surprising, a triumphant evocation of a period and a people filled with both courage and ugliness.”?The New York Times Book Review When The Secret River?a novel about frontier violence in early Australia?appeared in 2005, it became an instant best seller and garnered publicity for its unflinching look at Australia’s notorious history. It has since been published all over the world and translated into twenty languages. Grenville’s next novel, The Lieutenant, continued her exploration of Australia’s first settlement and again, caused controversy for its bold view of her homeland’s beginnings. Sarah Thornhill brings this acclaimed trilogy to an emotionally explosive conclusion. Sarah is the youngest daughter of William Thornhill, the pioneer at the center of The Secret River. Unknown to Sarah, her father?an ex-convict from London?has built his fortune on the blood of Aboriginal people. With a fine stone house and plenty of money, Thornhill is a man who has reinvented himself. As he tells his daughter, he ?never looks back,” and Sarah grows up learning not to ask about the past. Instead, her eyes are on handsome Jack Langland, whom she’s loved since she was a child. Their romance seems idyllic, but the ugly secret in Sarah’s family is poised to ambush them both. As she did with The Secret River, Grenville once again digs into her own family history to tell a story about the past that still resonates today. Driven by the captivating voice of the illiterate Sarah?at once headstrong, sympathetic, curious, and refreshingly honest?this is an unforgettable portrait of a passionate woman caught up in a historical moment that’s left an indelible mark on the present. € 13,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate, Adler Louise (INT) Publisher: Text Pub Co In the award-winning Dark Places, celebrated Australian author Kate Grenville tells the tale of Albion Gidley Singer?a man with a comically grand exterior who believes he has the right, and the duty, to conquer the mocking flesh of any woman. Even his own daughter. € 13,40
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1912 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate, Bell Nicholas (NRT) Publisher: Bolinda Audio In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other side of the world. After the fleet arrives in Port Jackson, Rooke sets up camp on a rocky and isolated point, and starts his work of astronomy and navigation. It's not too long before some of the Aboriginal people who live around the harbour pay him a visit. One of them, a girl named Tagaran, starts to teach him her own language. But her lessons and their friendship are interrupted when Rooke is given an order that will change his life forever.Inspired by the 1790 notebooks of William Dawes in which he recorded his conversations with a young Gadigal woman, The Lieutenant is a story about a man discovering his true self in extraordinary circumstances. € 14,00
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1911 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: Allen & Unwin € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS € 10,50
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1910 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Grove Pr The Commonwealth Writer's Prize-winning author of € 13,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS € 12,80
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2009 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Pgw A stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning book, The Secret River, Grenville's The Lieutenant is a gripping story about friendship, self-discovery, and the power of language set along the unspoiled shores of 1788 New South Wales. As a boy, Daniel Rooke was an outsider. Ridiculed in school and misunderstood by his parents, Daniel could only hope that he would one day find his place in life. When he joins the marines and travels to Australia as a lieutenant on the First Fleet, Daniel finally sees his chance for a new beginning. As his countrymen struggle to control their cargo of convicts and communicate with nearby Aboriginal tribes, Daniel constructs an observatory to chart the stars and begin the work he prays will make him famous. But the place where they have landed will prove far more revelatory than the night sky. Out on his isolated point, Daniel comes to intimately know the local Aborigines and forges a remarkable connection with one girl that will change the course of his life. The Lieutenant is a remarkable story about the poignancy of a friendship that defies linguistic and cultural barriers, and shows one man that he is capable of exceptional courage. € 20,20
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2007 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: Canongate books A reissue of an early novel from the author of }The Secret River{, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 2006. '}Lilian's Story{...takes you into another world, which is rare.' }Guardian € 11,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Trafalgar Square The Orange Prize–winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia in 1806. In this new world of convicts and charlatans, Thornhill tries to pull his family into a position of power and comfort. When he rounds a bend in the Hawkesbury River and sees a gentle slope of land, he becomes determined to make the place his own. But, as uninhabited as the island appears, Australia is full of native people, and they do not take kindly to Thornhill's theft of their home. The Secret River is the tale of Thornhill's deep love for his small corner of the new world, and his slow realization that if he wants to settle there, he must ally himself with the most despicable of the white settlers, and to keep his family safe, he must permit terrifying cruelty to come to innocent people. € 11,20
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2003 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Penguin Group USA Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. They meet in the little Australian town of Karakarook, where Harley has arrived to help the town build a heritage museum and Douglas to demolish the quaint old Bent Bridge. From the beginning they are on a collision course until the unexpected sets them both free. Elegantly and compassionately told, The Idea of Perfection is reminiscent of the work of Carol Shields and Annie Proulx and reveals Kate Grenville as 'a writer of extraordinary talent' (The New York Times Book Review). € 18,50
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2000 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: Picador Two awkward characters are thrown together in an Australian town that has pinned its hopes on tourism. € 11,90
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1994 |
![]() ![]() Author: Grenville Kate Publisher: Lightning Source Inc Madness, cruelty, and sexuality permeate the household in which Lilian Una Singer is raised-an upper-crust Victorian world of teacups and servants. But Lilian, shielded by layers of fat, an iron will, and an indomitable spirit, has her sights set on an education, love, and-finally-her own transcendent forms of independence. € 12,00
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