Elizabeth Jolley
Mr Scobie's Riddle
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'Startlingly good... It divines riddles of mortality' The Age
Mr Scobie's arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude – and descent into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price – is accidental. Adrift in his ... Buy or find out more →
The Well
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Doing Life: A Biography Of Elizabeth Jolley
$34.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
Although she started writing early in life it was not until her fifties that Elizabeth Jolley received the recognition her talent deserved. She won The Age Book of the Year Award on three occasions as well as the Miles F... Buy or find out more →
The Well
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One n... Buy or find out more →
Georges Wife
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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.
What has she learned from the well-bre... Buy or find out more →
Miss Peabodys Inheritance
$23.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Buy or find out more →
Palomino
$23.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape. Buy or find out more →
Georges Wife
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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.
What has she learned from the well-bre... Buy or find out more →
Cabin Fever
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Vera has cabin fever. Confined with her thoughts in the concrete tower of a New York hotel, she is haunted by her mother's reminders of what she should have been, and the desperate choices she faced as an unprotecte... Buy or find out more →
My Fathers Moon
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'The novel at the heart of all her work' Helen Daniel, The Age
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 se... Buy or find out more →
Milk And Honey
$18.95 – Paperback book / Fremantle Arts Ct Pr
A self-absorbed young musician comes as a pupil-boarder to the house of an 'old European' family. Gradually his life is taken over and consumed, seemingly, by dark, mysterious forces within as much as outside himself. Mi... Buy or find out more →
Newspaper Of Claremont Street
$22.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Weekly, an old cleaning lady known as 'the newspaper', dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of the past and the present.
This new edition re-introduces one of the author's most popular and distinctive characters. Buy or find out more →
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Learning To Dance: Elizabeth Jolley Her Life And Work
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant and best-loved writers, delighting readers with her acute observation of the world, her wicked humour, her compassion and her honesty. Learning to Dance brings toge... Buy or find out more →
Woman In A Lampshade
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
In this masterly collection of stories, Elizabeth Jolley has created a splendid array of characters, all of whom fail to achieve the expected. Her stories are sometimes slyly comic, sometimes disturbing - but always they... Buy or find out more →