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A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Toibin
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as 'the greatest living Irishwoman' - Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both thought and deed, actively cha ...Show more
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin
$20.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodóvar, born nearly a hundred years later. Tóibín studies how ...Show more
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was ...Show more
Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. First published in 1994, Robert Gl ck's Margery Kempe is one of the most prov ...Show more
Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships.Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This ...Show more
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, a magnificent new novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for hope. Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm T ib n's superb seventh novel i ...Show more
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín, Colm Toibin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, which had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his fla ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures ...Show more
The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Reading Level: good
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the ...Show more
The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks.Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the ...Show more