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A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award. When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem ...Show more
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs. ...Show more
In the City of Love's Sleep by Lavinia Greenlaw
32.99 AUD
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
19.99 AUD
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
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland by Lavinia Greenlaw
29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the prizewinning poet and writer, an elegant, important and spirited work of self-investigation; the result of decades of answering questions that don't really matter-and not being asked the ones that do.
Some Answers Without Questions by Lavinia Greenlaw
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
24.95 AUD
Category: Music | 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
45.00 AUD
Category: Art
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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