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  • Disgrace

    A BBC Radio 4 Good Read

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    **A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter 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 of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Waiting for the Barbarians

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor 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 sympathy with the victims and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Pole and Other Stories

    Discover a love story full of music and surprise, from a twice-Booker Prize winner

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    In this beautifully written and compulsively readable story of love and the mutability of human relationships, pianist Witold's infatuation with Beatriz will change them both.A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times Book of the Year‘Confirms Coetzee as one of the great writers of fiction’ ObserverAfter his piano recital in Barcelona, Witold Walczykiewic... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Giving Offense

    Essays on Censorship

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals ... Read more

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  • Life and Times of Michael K

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Diary of a Bad Year

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in an immoral war on terror, a war that involves the use of torture?Then in the laundry room of his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Summertime

    by J M Coetzee ...
    A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Good Music

    Letters on Art and Life

    by J. M. Coetzee, Andrew Ford ...
    In 2021, the writer J.M. Coetzee and the composer Andrew Ford collaborated on a music-theatre piece, The Blessing. Following this, Coetzee and Ford began a correspondence in which they reflect on human creativity in all its forms.They exchange thoughts on Beethoven and Elgar, on J.S. Bach and Stravinsky, on Jacqueline du Pré, Bruce Springsteen and the future of jazz. Besides music, their letters ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Brighton Rock

    Graham Greene's most iconic novel

    by Graham Greene ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.'In a class by ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Stranger Shores

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    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 South Africa. Stranger Shores opens with 'What is a Classic?' in which Coetzee explores the answer to his own question - 'What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Boyhood

    Scenes from provincial life

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write 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 mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Elizabeth Costello

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded.Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD