Foe (Coetzee J M)(Paperback / softback)

Foe (Coetzee J M)(Paperback / softback)

In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion

Foe (Coetzee J M)(Paperback / softback)

In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion

Age of Iron (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

Schooldays of Jesus (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

Summertime (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. 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 English lessons with

Waiting For The Barbarians (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

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

Late Essays - 2006 - 2017 (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate Essays gathers together

Disgrace (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

'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

Death of Jesus (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Brilliant' Evening StandardSimon and David - a tall ten-year-old - are in a new land, together with a woman named

Youth (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

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 be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it

Age of Iron (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its

Stranger Shores (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of 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 admire Coetzee as a novelist can also read his literary

Diary of a Bad Year (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

An eminent 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 a war

Here and Now - Letters (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Offers an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. This book includes letters that touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, family, marriage, friendship, and

Master Of Petersburg (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

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 mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion, art and

Schooldays of Jesus (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Observer and Daily TelegraphWhen you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new

Inner Workings - Literary Essays 2000-2005 (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and

Life And Times Of Michael K (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

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

Boyhood - Scenes from provincial life (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

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

After Sebald - Essays and Illuminations (Coetzee John)(Paperback / softback)

Dusklands (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

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 wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe

The Lives of Animals (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback)

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses,

The Death of Jesus (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback)

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel Prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking

Childhood of Jesus (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback)

Though like everyone else who arrives in this new country he seems to be washed clean of all traces of memory, he is convinced he will know her when he sees her. And indeed, while walking with the boy in the countryside Simon catches sight of a woman he is certain is the mother, and persuades her