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Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had th ...Show more
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of t ...Show more
I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford
22.99 AUD
Category: History
When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.' Francis Spufford's celebrated and prize-winning history shows how ...Show more
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Francis Spufford
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, ha ...Show more
The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Child that Books Built is Francis Spufford's celebrated memoir and investigation into childhood and reading.
The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
What would you find if you went back and re-read all of your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this memoir of a boy who retreats into books, faced with a tragedy in his family.
The Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a h ...Show more
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford
22.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Reading Level: very good
But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic ...Show more
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