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Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
"An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way."--Vogue A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no l ...Show more
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