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J M Coetzee
$49.95 – Hardback / Scribe Publications
J.M. Coetzee: a life in writing is the first biography of Nobel prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee. A global publishing event of the rarest kind, the book has been written with the full co-operation of Coetzee, who granted the... Buy or find out more→
J.M. Coetzee the Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003
$17.95 – Hardback / Penguin Putnam Inc
The acceptance speech delivered by the winner of the 2003 Noble Prize for Literature, and the enigmatic short story He and His Man which Coetzee recited during his speech, are brought together in this volume. Buy or find out more→
J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices
$44.00 – Paperback / Palgrave Macmillan
Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates.... Buy or find out more→
J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices
$133.00 – Hardback / Palgrave Macmillan
Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical... Buy or find out more→
The Ethics of Exile: Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J. M. Coetzee
$64.00 – Paperback / Taylor & Francis Ltd
Posthumous Confession
$19.95 – Paperback / New York Review of Books
"A Posthumous Confession "is narrated by Termeer, a deeply frustrated man who persuades himself that only in murder can he find ultimate satisfaction. Emotionally stunted, thanks to his upbringing by forbidding and condemning... Buy or find out more→
J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory
$130.00 – Hardback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Drawing on a range of theoretical ideas and approaches, this book illuminates Coetzee's texts including: deconstruction and the 'school of singularity', ethics and power, gender studies, queer theory, issues surrounding the body... Buy or find out more→
The Childhood of Jesus
$29.95 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co
Davíd is a small boy who comes by boat across the ocean to a new country. He has been separated from his parents, and has lost the piece of paper that would have explained everything. On the boat a stranger named Simón takes it... Buy or find out more→
The 2013 Voiceless Anthology
$22.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
... a selection of lively, engaging and often passionately felt stories and essays revolving around one of the more urgent social and philosophical issues of our times. J.M. Coetzee, Winner of the 2003... Buy or find out more→
Disgrace: Vintage 21
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee... Buy or find out more→
Scenes from Provincial Life
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
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... Buy or find out more→
Diary of a Bad Year
$12.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Shortlisted, Award for Fiction and Award for Innovation, 2008 SA
Festival Awards for Literature
Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize
for Fiction
Shortlisted, Age Book of the Year 2008
Scenes from Provincial Life
$49.95 – Hardback / Vintage
Set in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s, this title lets us meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unconditional love. At school he passes every test that is set for... Buy or find out more→
Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction
$120.00 – Hardback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
Shows how Coetzee makes us reconsider certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism and the authority of the author. Buy or find out more→
Here and Now
$27.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging... Buy or find out more→
Disgrace
$19.95 – Paperback / 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 / 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 into... Buy or find out more→
Foe Popular Penguins
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
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 we knew... Buy or find out more→
Elizabeth Costello
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Elizabeth Costellois a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee’s latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown -- fêted, studied and honoured.... Buy or find out more→
Disgrace
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee... Buy or find out more→
The Confusions of Young Torless
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school-fellows into a private world... Buy or find out more→
Dusklands
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, and in the second, a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman... Buy or find out more→
Waiting For The Barbarians
$20.95 – Paperback
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 into... Buy or find out more→
The Life and Times of Michael K
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A man who suffers physical and social hardships shows continuing bravery and hope in the face of lost childhood, imprisonment, and stateless identity in South Africa. Buy or find out more→
Boyhood: A Memoir
$19.95 – Paperback / 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 a... Buy or find out more→
Youth
$19.95 – Paperback / 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 he will... Buy or find out more→
Disgrace
$19.95 – Paperback / 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 save his... Buy or find out more→
Slow Man
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
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, he turns away from his friends and focuses his being on his nurse,... Buy or find out more→
Diary of a Bad Year
$23.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A unique insight into the role of the fiction writer in society. A beautiful book, made up of the most ordinary things in the world, and makes them into a thing of music and magic. Buy or find out more→
Foe
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'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... Buy or find out more→
Age Of Iron
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Written by the winner of the 1983 Booker Prize, this novel is a lament for a country on the cusp of change. It is an indictment of the violence of apartheid and a harrowing portrait of personal grief. Coetzee has also written ... Buy or find out more→
Summertime
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
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... Buy or find out more→
Diary of a Bad Year
$35.00 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co
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... Buy or find out more→
Brighton Rock
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding, Independent WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark... Buy or find out more→
Brighton Rock
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined... Buy or find out more→
Here and Now
$40.00 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
Offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page. Buy or find out more→
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999
$29.95 – 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... Buy or find out more→
Inner Workings
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
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 essays... Buy or find out more→
Waiting for the Barbarians
$20.95 – Paperback / Penguin Putnam Inc
A novel in which, for decades, the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, but a quixotic act of rebellion lands him in jail, branded an enemy... Buy or find out more→
In the Heart of the Country
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 shamed,... Buy or find out more→
Master of Petersburg
$24.95 – Paperback / 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 compelling... Buy or find out more→
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999
$59.95 – Hardback / Vintage
This volume gathers together 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who... Buy or find out more→
Disgrace
$54.95 – Hardback / Vintage
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; he is... Buy or find out more→
Inner Workings
$39.95 – Hardback / Random House Australia
Gathers together the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several: Italo Sveve, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai, lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de... Buy or find out more→
Elizabeth Costello
$35.00 – Hardback / Random House Australia
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is feted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which it seems, she will never escape, she has... Buy or find out more→
Summertime
$39.95 – Hardback / Random House Australia
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... Buy or find out more→
Life and Times of Michael K
$20.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
First published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but finds that war... Buy or find out more→
Slow Man
$21.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books
A calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of Paul Rayment's leg. His feelings for his nurse, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian... Buy or find out more→
In the Heart of the Country
$20.95 – Paperback / Penguin Putnam Inc
A novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and executes a bloody revenge. From the author of DUSKLANDS and... Buy or find out more→
Master Of Petersburg
$23.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
The great Russian novelist Dostoevsky, obsessed with discovering whether his stepson's sudden death was murder or suicide, finds himself drawn into the violent revolutionary subculture of 1869 Russia, in a work of fiction that is... Buy or find out more→