Kate Grenville

Related Books

1 - The Secret River (Jul-2005)
2 - The Lieutenant (Feb-2009)
3 - Sarah Thornhill (Jun-2012)

Thornhills

1 - The Secret River (Jul-2005)
2 - Sarah Thornhill (Jun-2012)

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  Lilian's Story
  

  • Aug-1986
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  Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family&...

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  Dreamhouse
  

  • Oct-1987
  • / General Fiction
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  In a decaying Tuscan villa, Rennie, a self-absorbed academic, completes his dissertation, and Louise contemplates the ruin of their marriage, until Louise's life ripens with new and unconventional possibilities...

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  Albion's Story
  

  • Dec-1994
  • / General Fiction
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  In this "startling, fasciniating, disturbing" (Library Journal) companion to Lilian's Story, Kate Grenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine, from the inside out, how an apparently respectable Victorian gentleman can persuade himself that he...

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  Dark Places
  

  • Dec-1997
  • / Suspense
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  Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize 1995. This edition introduced by Louise Adler. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian’s Story, is the tale of  a man with a comically grand exter...

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  The Idea of Perfection
  

  • Apr-2002
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  A QUIRKY TOUCHING ROMANCE THAT CELEBRATES SOMETHING EVEN BETTER THAN PERFECTION Unlikely love can blossom out of the most unpromising of conjunctions. Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator, and quilting expert with three failed ...

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  Bearded Ladies Dreamhouse
  

  • Jul-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  The Secret River
  

  • Jul-2005
  • / Historical
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  Related Books - 1
  Thornhills - 1
  

  In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in wha...

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  The Lieutenant
  

  • Feb-2009
  • / Historical
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  In 1788, astronomer Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales where he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. But thi...

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  Sarah Thornhill
  

  • Jun-2012
  • / Historical
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  Related Books - 3
  Thornhills - 2
  

  In the final book of a trilogy that began with her bestselling novel, The Secret River, Commonwealth Prize-winner Kate Grenville returns to the youngest daughter of the Thornhills and her quest to uncover, at her peril, the family’s hidden legacy. ...

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  Bearded Ladies
  

  • Dec-2014
  • / Literary
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  Kate Grenville's bearded ladies live on the fringe of things, where nothing is quite as it seems. Their beards are invisible, but the women, and men, in these highly acclaimed black comedies are just as out of step and out of place as if they wer...

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  A Room Made of Leaves
  

  • Jul-2020
  • / Literary
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  What if Elizabeth Macarthur -- wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney -- had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it? That’s the ...

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  Restless Dolly Maunder
  

  • Dec-2023
  • / Historical
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  A DAILY MAIL NOVEL OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR BEST FICTION IN THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS AUSTRALIA 2024Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined w...

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Award-Winning Books by Kate Grenville

The Idea of Perfection
2001 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction -- Fiction