Faces in the Water
10 best books like Faces in the Water (Janet Frame): Water Shall Refuse Them, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, The Mismeasure of Man, Restoree, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934, The Weather in the Streets, Drylands, The Colour, Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds, The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
| Author | Lucie McKnight Hardy |
| ISBN | 1911585568 |
The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her family move to a small village on the Welsh borders to escape their grief. But rural seclusion doesn't bring any relief. As her family unravels, Nif begins to put together her own form of witchcraft -...
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN | 0393308189 |
More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science.
Ever Since Darwin,...
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN | 0393314251 |
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.
How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it" and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0552083445 |
There was a sudden stench of a dead sea creature. There was the sudden horror of a huge black shape closing over her. There was nothing...
Then there were pieces of memory, isolated fragments that were so horrible her mind refused to accept them. Intense heat and shivering cold; excruciating...
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
| Author | Anaïs Nin |
| ISBN | 0156260255 |
What a diary! Definitely nothing like any diary I’ve ever read or written. Anais Nin is truly engaging. Each diary entry is so candid and shows her deeply introspective and artistic nature.
For the most part I’d say nothing truly remarkable happens in the diary; yet Nin is the kind of person...
| Author | Rosamond Lehmann |
| ISBN | 1844083063 |
Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streets shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apprently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a...
| Author | Thea Astley |
| ISBN | 0140283803 |
In her flat above Drylands's newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed in her 50 years, except for the coming of cable TV. Loneliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business. But the town is being outmanoeuvred by drought and begins...
| Author | Rose Tremain |
| ISBN | 0099425157 |
Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity, but the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in a creek...
| Author | Tim Flannery |
| ISBN | 0802136656 |
Flannery travels to the unexplored regions of New Guinea in search of species that science has yet to discover or classify. He finds many -- from a community of giant cave bats that were supposedly extinct to the elusive black-and-white tree-kangaroo -- and along the way has a wealth of unforgettable...
| Author | Judith L. Rapoport |
| ISBN | 0451172027 |
One boy spends six hours a day washing himself—and still can't believe he will ever be clean. Another sufferer must check her stove hundreds of times daily to make sure she has turned it off. And one woman, in an effort to ensure that her eyebrows are symmetrical, finally plucks out every hair. All of...
| Author | Katherine Mansfield |
| ISBN | 1843914077 |
One of Katherine Mansfield's most important works, Prelude established her reputation as a master of short fiction. It is accompanied here by its continuation pieces At the Bay and The Doll's House. A large, seemingly loving family, the Burnells lead an idyllic life, with the children free to play...
| Author | Elizabeth Taylor |
| ISBN | 1844083225 |
In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates...
William Power, actor and sometime private inquiry agent, has returned from the Northern Territory, shaken, stirred, and generally discombobulated. 'I survived the tropics with my life and my looks intact, despite the best efforts of the flora, fauna, and Military Intelligence to steal both from...
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
| Author | Erving Goffman |
| ISBN | 0385000162 |
Just in passing - the edition I read had a much better cover, the black and white photograph of a woman's hands covering her face with a cigarette between her fingers pretty much summed up my feelings about this book.
There is a sentence in Moab is My Wash Pot where Stephen Fry, at least, I’m nearly...
Short Stories: volume 1: A Sahib's War and Other Stories
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0140032819 |
Of the two volumes, A Sahib's War and Other Stories and Friendly Brook and Other Stories, Professor Rutherford, who selected the contents of both volumes, writes: 'There are fewer tales of Empire than the popular stereotype of Kipling might lead readers to expect....Increasingly he was preoccupied...
| Author | Jackie Collins |
| ISBN | 0312567456 |
Three twenty-something women, one hot rich guy, two mega movie stars, and a devastating murder. Poor Little Bitch Girl has it all.
Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in L.A. Carolyn Henderson is a personal assistant to a powerful and very married senator in Washington...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
| Author | Douglas Murray |
| ISBN | 1635579988 |
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.
In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
| Author | Murray Ball |
| ISBN | 1852864222 |
Ball grew up in New Zealand before spending some years in Australia and South Africa. As a young man he worked for the Dominion newspaper in Wellington and the Manawatu Times before becoming a freelance cartoonist and moving to England, where he found work with publishers DC Thomson, of Dundee.
He...
| Author | Chris Kraus |
| ISBN | 1584350016 |
As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love to me. Belief is a technology for softening the landscape. The world becomes more beautiful when God is in it. Here is what happens inside a person's body when they starve.Written in the shadow of Georg Buchner's Lenz at razor pitch, Aliens &...
