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An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
Henry and Muriel's life on the new estate is relatively harmonious despite the vulgar neighbours, the Second World War and the regular Sunday visits from Muriel's mother (who believes her daughter has married far below her station).The accidental (?) appearance of Mr Hawthorne - Muriel's student - at th ...Show more
Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
This is the sequel of sorts to My Father's Moon, and reintroduces us to Vera, many years later, holed up in a hotel room in New York. Vera begins to reflect on her life and in doing so, mourns the loss of love and friendship from her life: from the father of her child who was killed during WWII, to her ...Show more
Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
During her lifetime, Elizabeth Jolley established a formidable international reputation for her unique combination of unsentimental realism and original humour. Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories brings together two highly acclaimed collections of Jolley's short fiction in a new edition. Five Acre Virgi ...Show more
Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley - Her Life and Work by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Biography
This collection, chosen and introduced by Elizabeth's long-time friend and agent Caroline Lurie, has a sense of the author looking back, of humbly celebrating her achievements, laughing at her difficulties, and marvelling at life's unexpectedness. First published 2006.
Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Accessories | Series: UQP Modern Classics
In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels - with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl pr ...Show more
My Father's Moon by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Classics
Vera is young, awkward and naive. As a schoolgirl, she has her sheltered idealism, her Quaker boarding-school education, and the warm, enveloping sense of security of her parents. As a student nurse during the war, her transition into womanhood is rapid, painful and disastrous. And as an unmarried mothe ...Show more
NEWSPAPER OF CLAREMONT STREET THE by JOLLEY ELIZABETH
Category: Fiction
The old cleaning woman, known as 'weekly' or 'the newspaper' dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present - something which is unknown to the residents of Claremont Street.
Sunburnt Country by A. B. Facey; Connie Ellement; Kenneth Gasmier; T. A. G. Hungerford; Gail Jones; Vasso Kalamaras; John Lane; Simone Lazaroo; Pat Malcolm; Bill Marks; John A. McKenzie; Elizabeth Jolley; Jack McPhee; Connie Miller; Kim Scott; Joyce Shiner; Imelda P. Smith; Justina Williams; Beverley Dunn (Read by); James Wright (Read by); Sally Morgan; Joan London; Elizabeth Backhouse; Michal Bosworth; Emma Ciccotosto; Ron Davidson; Faye Davis
Category: Audio
Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia ...Show more
The Georges' Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices that echo in the mind like music. In The Georges' Wife, Elizabeth Jolley returns to the themes of discord and harmony between brothers and sister, husbands ...Show more
The Newspaper of Claremont Street: Fremantle Press Treasures by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
The central character of Weekly dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present, as she battles against a hostile community to buy her plot of land. The Gothic quality and the climax of the novel reveal Jolley's ability to create a stunning and original plot.
The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
An ageing but handsome university professor, Edwin Page, is married to Cecilia, a much younger woman who is an obstetrician and gynaecologist. When the childless Cecilia goes away for a year's study leave, Edwin finds himself more and more in the company of Leila and her mother who live next door. Leila ...Show more
The Well: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1986 (Popular Penguins) by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farthe ...Show more
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