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The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama by Walter Tevis
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discove ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (PB) by Walter Tevis
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Series | Reading Level: very good
‘Superb’ - Time Out. ‘Mesmerizing’ - Newsweek. ‘Gripping’ - Financial Times. ‘Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years – for the pure pleasure and skill of it’ - Michael Ondaatje. ‘Don’t pick this up if you want a night’s sleep’ - The Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage at the ag ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before ...Show more
The Siege Of Krishnapur: Winner of the Booker Prize by J.G. Farrell
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WINNER OF THE 1973 BOOKER PRIZE'We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?'Krishnapur, 1857: India is on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny. In this remote town on the vast North Indian plain, life for the British is still ...Show more
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock i ...Show more
The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss...This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides. ...Show more
The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of ...Show more
The Troubles by J. G. Farrell
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fianc e is strangely alt ...Show more
Troubles by J.G. Farrell
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters,the lady herself proves elusive,and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts ...Show more
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
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Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic' TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 'The book I give as a gift... It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit.' SHEILA HETI 'A modern legend ... A very funny writer' TRUMAN CAPOTE ' I am going on a trip. Wait until I tell ...Show more