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Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One of the Guardian's Best Books of the Year: Personal writings by the anonymous author who became a literary phenomenon with My Brilliant Friend. The writer known as Elena Ferrante has taken pains to hide her identity in the hope that readers would focus on her body of work. But in this volume, she in ...Show more
Frantumaglia: Fragments: on Writing and Reading by Elena Ferrante
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journ ...Show more
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein; Andrea Uncini (Illustrator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Elena Ferrante's Guardian columns, collected and illustrated.
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet | Reading Level: very good
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship. Elena Ferrante's piercingly honest portrait of two girls' path into woma ...Show more
My Brilliant Friend (large print) by Elena Ferrante
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Novels
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante
19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Inspired by one of Elena Ferrante's earlier novels, The Lost Daughter, this is a bewitching fable for girls and boys, but also for Elena Ferrante fans of all ages. Accompanied by full-colour illustrations by Mara Cerri, The Beach At Night is a beautiful picture book narrated by a doll named Celina. Mati ...Show more
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A bestseller in Italy for almost a year, "The Days of Abandonment" shocked and captivated its public when first published - the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for alone. When she finds herself literally ...Show more
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the New York Times-bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife's descent into despair--and rage--is "a masterpiece" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman's experiences after being suddenly left by her husband ...Show more
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Soon to be a major film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal.
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Leda, a middle-aged divorcee, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns quickly to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Ferrante's language is as fierce and finely tuned as eve ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more