J.M. Coetzee
Scenes From Provincial Life
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Here for the first time in one volume is JM Coetzee's majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime.
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a... Buy or find out more →
Foe
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'A small miracle of a book . . . of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power' Washington Post
In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M. Coetzee readically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe.
In the early eightee... Buy or find out more →
Age Of Iron
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she ... Buy or find out more →
Summertime
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Completing the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972 - 1977 w... Buy or find out more →
Youth
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world h... Buy or find out more →
Disgrace
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an i... Buy or find out more →
Disgrace (Limited Centenary Edition)
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, he has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; ... Buy or find out more →
J.M. Coetzee And The Ethics Of Reading Literature In The Event
$37.95 – Paperback book / Univ. Of Chicago Pr.
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J.M. Coetzee And Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives On Literature
$49.95 – Paperback book / Columbia Univ Pr
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The Master Of Petersburg
$23.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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Boyhood: A Memoir
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, J. M Coetzee writes about his childhood and interior life. BOYHOOD'S young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and... Buy or find out more →
Diary Of A Bad Year
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
A famous writer is commissioned to contribute to a book of essays called Strong Opinions when he meets a young woman who lives in his apartment tower. He asks her to become his . . .
In the laundry room of her apartment ... Buy or find out more →
Disgrace
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to s... Buy or find out more →
Elizabeth Costello
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A humane, moral and uncompromising new novel from J.M. Coetzee, twice winner of the Booker Prize and one of the finest authors writing in the English language.
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Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writ... Buy or find out more →
Waiting For The Barbarians
$20.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted... Buy or find out more →
Inner Workings
$39.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
In his second volume of literary essays, following Stranger Shores (2001), Nobel laureate Coetzee conducts deep readings primarily of major twentieth-century European and American writers. Cosmopolitan in range and erudi... Buy or find out more →
Age Of Iron
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she ... Buy or find out more →
Summertime
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Completing the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972 - 1977 w... Buy or find out more →
In The Heart Of The Country
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels sh... Buy or find out more →
Foe
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
With electrical intensity of language and insight, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe – and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. The stories we thought ... Buy or find out more →
Foe
$21.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa
Susan Barton finds herself marooned on an island in the Atlantic with an Englishman named Robinson Cruso and his mute (mutilated) slave, Friday. Rescued after a year of Cruso's company, back in England with Friday in tow... Buy or find out more →
Life And Times Of Michael K
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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Dusklands
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A specialist in pyschological warefare is driven to braekdown and madness by the stressed of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the w ar in Vietnam. A meglomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengence on a Hottent... Buy or find out more →
Disgrace
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Now a major motion picture starring John Malkovich
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is... Buy or find out more →
Waiting For The Barbarians
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted... Buy or find out more →
The Master Of Petersburg
$22.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compe... Buy or find out more →
Slow Man
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He ... Buy or find out more →
Inner Workings
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Coetzee the critic is every bit as good as Coetzee the novelist.' - Irish Times Following on from STRANGER SHORES which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 19F99, INNER WORKINGS, gathers together his literary es... Buy or find out more →
Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists.
This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in So... Buy or find out more →