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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
$27.00 NZD
$28.00 (3% off)
Category: Non-fiction
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend. 'Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.' - The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilli ...Show more
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein; Andrea Uncini (Illustrator)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Elena Ferrante's Guardian columns, collected and illustrated.
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
$24.99 NZD
$34.00 (26% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet | Reading Level: very good
The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship. Elena Ferrante's piercingly honest portrait of two girls' path into woma ...Show more
My Brilliant Friend audio cd by Elena Ferrante
$49.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Neapolitan Novels
My Brilliant Friend is a ravishing, wonderfully written novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, sometimes to their own de ...Show more
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
$38.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Inspired by one of Elena Ferrante's earlier novels, The Lost Daughter, this is a bewitching fable for girls and boys, but also for Elena Ferrante fans of all ages. Accompanied by full-colour illustrations by Mara Cerri, The Beach At Night is a beautiful picture book narrated by a doll named Celina. Mati ...Show more
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing ...Show more
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the New York Times-bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife's descent into despair--and rage--is "a masterpiece" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman's experiences after being suddenly left by her husband ...Show more
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
$22.99 NZD
$25.00 (8% off)
Category: Fiction
Soon to be a major film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal.
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein (Translator)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything-the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold F ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naple ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sarah Bestsellers | Reading Level: very good
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more