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All We Saw by Anne Michaels
Category: Gift
A mesmerising, luminously beautiful new poetry collection from Anne Michaels, internationally acclaimed poet and bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces In this passionate, profound collection, Anne Michaels explores one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of, and incapable of'. Here i ...Show more
All We SawPoems by Anne Michaels
Category: Gift
Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet. In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and i ...Show more
Fugitive Pieces: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction by Anne Michaels
Category: Fiction
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astoundi ...Show more
Held by Anne Michaels
Category: Fiction
**A Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023**'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOODThe triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces: a soaring and luminous story of chance and chan ...Show more
Held by Anne Michaels
Category: Fiction
'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOOD The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces- a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the ...Show more
The Adventures of Miss Petitfour by Anne Michaels
Category: Children's Fiction
Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day." She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favorite mode of travel is"par avion." On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, P ...Show more
The Adventures of Miss Petitfour (HB) by Anne Michaels
Category: Children's Fiction
Meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour (a name of unknown origin but possibly descended from bakers of tiny delicious cakes). She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth (preferably the one with the pa ...Show more
The Adventures of Miss Petitfour (PB) by Anne Michaels
Category: Children's Fiction
Meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour (a name of unknown origin but possibly descended from bakers of tiny delicious cakes). She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth (preferably the one with the pa ...Show more
The Further Adventures of Miss Petitfour by Anne Michaels; Emma Block (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The\Adventures of Miss Petitfour Ser.
Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are 'just the right size' for a 'single, magical day.' With her sixteen cats and the aid of a tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour soars - which is to say, she rises high in the air and flies - over her charmingly eccentric village, encountering ...Show more
The Further Adventures of Miss Petitfour (#2) by Anne Michaels
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
For fans of Mary Poppins, heroine Miss Petitfour and her feline friends return for more flights of fancy in this cozy, charming collection of illustrated stories. Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are just the right size for a single, magical day. With her sixteen cats and the aid of a tabl ...Show more
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once the fl ...Show more
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