Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of modern America.
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military - Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences - but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways. Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times.
Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 Shortlist
A Gate At The Stairs
$22.99 – Paperback book / Faber
Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of modern America.
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains... Buy or find out more →
Wolf Hall
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Go backstage during the most dramatic period in English history: the reign of Henry VIII.
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey... Buy or find out more →
The Lacuna
$35.00$13.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
The first novel in ten years from Barbara Kingsolver, author of the international bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.
'You had better write all this in your notebook, she said, the story of what happened to us in Mexico. S... Buy or find out more →
Black Water Rising
$32.99 – Paperback book / Serpents Tail
In the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke delivers an electrifying thriller that you won't soon forget!
Jay Porter is not the lawyer he set out to be, but he's long since made peace with the American ... Buy or find out more →
The Very Thought Of You
$22.00 – Paperback book / Oneworld Pubn
England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna S... Buy or find out more →
A Gate At The Stairs
A Gate At The Stairs
$22.99 – Paperback book / Faber
Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of modern America.
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains... Buy or find out more →
A Gate At The Stairs
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
In her dazzling new novel - her first in over a decade - Laurie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of modern America.
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle east, twenty-year-old Tassie K... Buy or find out more →
