Search Results: Authors starting with W from The Library Kit

2006 Harper Perennial, Introduction by Val McDermid, Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate //Gentle overall wear and rubbings along cover edge,Slight crease on spine,Lightest age tanning//#2 in the Martin Beck series, a Nordic noir pioneer // 198 pages, 198mm x 129mm x 16mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2013 Harper Perennial // Light overall wear, Black marker line on bottom page edge // An inspiring Athabascan Indian legend on the importance of community, survival, and elderly knowledge // 127 pages, 180mm x 126mm x 12mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2018 Bloomsbury Publishing, Winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction, #2 Bois Sauvage series // Lightest raise on spine, In excellent condition //Complexities of the American South and the legacy of slavery and racism, all intensely compacted into this contemporary character-driven portrait of a Black family in Mississippi //289 pages, 198mm x 128mm x 19mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1987 Virago Modern Classics, Introduction by Stanley Baldwin, Prefaced by Michellene Wandor // Gentle overall wear, Light tanning of pages // Prue Sarn is a poetic vision of nature and human passion in the wild hill country of Shropshire // 288 pages, 197mm x 130mm x 20mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1990 Vintage International, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973 // Lightest overall wear, In excellent condition // A microcosmic play-like setting and premise of the young woman returning to take care of her dying father, where symbolisms abound // 180 pages, 204mm x 132mm x 14mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1982 Virago Modern Classics, Introduction by Paul Binding// Gentle overall wear, Light creases on spine, Slight tanning of pages, Bookplate Ex Libris Blanch on inside front cover // The days leading up to a Southern wedding, wonderfully portrayed through its assortment of relatives // 247 pages, 197mm x 128mm x 20mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1983Virago, Selected and Introdiced by Jane Marcus// Gentle overall age wear // A prolific range of journalistic, political, and fictional writings from West // 402 pages, 198mm x 128mm x 30mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2018 Serpent's Tail
// Lightest overall wear, In excellent condition // 33 stories (see photo #4) from the masterful short-story writer// 490 pages, 198mm x 128mm x 34mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2016 UWA Publishing, Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017, Winner of the Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2015 // Gentle overall wear, Slight lifting on edges, Light creases on spine // A quiet and heartfelt book on second chances and forgiveness after regrets and wilful blindness //281 pages, 236mm x 156mm x 25mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2020 Penguin Book, Shortlisted 2021 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing // Light overall wear // A life-affirming update and sequel to the healing power of nature // 274 pages, 224mm x 143mm x 30mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1988 Hutchinson //Gentle overall wear and age tanning on dust jacket, Previous owner's name A.W. Pryor 1990 written on top of title page, Few green lines marked in margin // A contemporaneously critical overview of Cook's role in the western exploration of the Pacific // 521 pages, 242mm x 164mm x 32mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2021 Bloomsbury, Foreword by Elizabeth Strout // Lightest wear along cover edges, Small puncture on front cover (see photo)
// The tensions of everyday womanhood // 179 pages, 205mm x 134mm x 17mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2016 Harper Perennial// Light overall wear // A sweeping generational saga exploring fate and the burden of the past through the lens of womanhood // 312 pages, 203mm x 134mm x 21mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2007 Yale University Press, Foreword by Victoria Glendinning // Light overall wear, Price sticker on bottom right of back cover // A scathingly critical semi-autobiographical novel with characters based on the famous Woolfs, begun on their honeymoon // 285 pages, 193mm x 136mm x 17mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1976 Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, First Edition // Slight ripples on an otherwise unmarked cover, Tape marks on the endpapers, Sticker from International Bookshop Melbourne on front endpaper, Name of previous owner Leone Moffat written on front endpaper, Pages in unmarked perfect condition // A farcical play based on Woolf's great-aunt, written and performed for one of the Bloomsbury group's theatrical evening, A wonderful addition for a Woolf completionist // 76 pages, 262g, 220mm x 147mm x 16mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1987 Virago Modern Classics, Introduction by Shena Mackay // Lightest wear along cover edges, Slight tanning along top of page edges // The sexual maturation of a young Southern woman in 20s New York // 288 pages, 198mm x 129mm x 21mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW