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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Lucy Ellmann
An utterly original novel, longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize in which one woman navigates, through compelling inner monologue, the tension and disquiet of contemporary America.
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By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
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A scorching collection of essays from the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport
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Lucy Ellmann’s first novel for seven years exceeded even the highest expectations, a comic masterpiece that will charm readers everywhere.
Born into a middle-class, mid-Western family dominated by opera, art history and tuna sandwiches, Suzy longs to be normal. She spends half her time emulating her original and entertaining younger…
Written by the author of Sweet Desserts , which won The Guardian Fiction Prize in 1988. Isabel, a 31-year-old virgin with high hopes of art history as a discipline, leads…
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In her devastating send-up of life and love in a country doctor’s office, Ellmann conducts a public autopsy on the failings of modern medicine, armed only with pathos, passion, pethidine…
A new novel from the extraordinary imagination of Lucy Ellmann, author of Man or Mango?
On the the corner of Madison and 34th Street, Harrison, an eminent Manhattan plastic surgeon, slips on the Christmas Eve ice. When a comely woman helps him to his feet…
A scorching indictment of America’s barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster, Ducks, Newburyport is a heresy, a wonder - and…
By turns a cozy domestic novel, a feminist rant, and–courtesy of a subplot involving a mountain lion–an adventure story, narrated by an Ohio mother besieged by MAGA hats and mountain…
Judith Rossner
A 1980 novel (by the bestselling author of Looking for Mr Goodbar) set in the nineteenth century about a thirteen year-old-girl sent to work in the mills at Lowell in…
Emily Holmes Coleman
Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience one new mother’s psychological journey in this lost 1930 foremother of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.
