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1	Disgrace more books like this by J M Coetzee A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as as a show trial designed to reinforce a stringent political ... see all copies from £2.50! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Waiting for the Barbarians more books like this by J M Coetzee For 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 is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. ... see all copies from £4.99! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Foe more books like this by J M Coetzee Susan Barton finds herself marooned on an island in the Atlantic with an Englishman named Robinson Cruso and his mute (mutilated) slave, Friday. Rescued after a year of Cruso's company, back in England with Friday in tow, she approaches the author Daniel Foe, offering him the story. see all copies from £2.00! new only from £5.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Life & Times of Michael K more books like this by J M Coetzee 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 armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £8.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Age of Iron more books like this by Jim Coetzee An old woman is dying of cancer in Cape Town. A classics professor, Mrs Curren has always been opposed to the brutality of apartheid, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since ... see all copies from £1.96! new only from £9.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The lives of animals more books like this by J M Coetzee 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, factories, and laboratories across the world. ... see all copies from £11.12! new only from £12.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Elizabeth Costello more books like this by J M Coetzee A profound new work of fiction from one of the greatest writers alive. Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is feted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £3.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Master of Petersburg more books like this by J M Coetzee In The Master of Petersburg J.M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. 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 mediation on authority and ... see all copies from £4.19! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Diary of a Bad Year more books like this by J M Coetzee An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". It is a chance to air some urgent concerns. He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, on anarchism, on al Qaida, on intelligent design, on music. What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the ... see all copies from £6.19! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Waiting for the Barbarians: Great Books Edition more books like this by J. M. Coetzee The confessions of a magistrate in a colonial outpost who is ordered to collaborate with brutal torturers. At first he agrees, then rebels, and must pay the price for his refusal. see all copies from £9.97! new only from £9.97!
11 view cover	Dusklands more books like this by J. M. Coetzee A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a ... see all copies from £2.00! new only from £5.35! \| first editions
12 view cover	Slow Man more books like this by J M Coetzee A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood ... see all copies from £1.96! new only from £6.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life more books like this by J M Coetzee A memoir of growing up in South Africa during the 1940s and 1950s, written by the Nobel Prize-winning author of THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K. and DISGRACE. Coetzee examines his early impressions of his family, his unhappy years at school, and his slowly developing awareness of the political strife that hangs over his country. see all copies from £6.08! new only from £8.79! \| first editions
14 view cover	Youth more books like this by J.M. Coetzee The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him, and from what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in ... see all copies from £1.35! new only from £6.18! \| first editions
15 view cover	Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 more books like this by J M Coetzee Following on from "Stranger Shores", which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, "Inner Workings" gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005. Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai - lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the ... see all copies from £5.40! new only from £5.40! \| first editions
16 view cover	In the Heart of the Country more books like this by J M Coetzee Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's ... see all copies from £6.19! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies
17 view cover	Brighton Rock: Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition more books like this by Graham Greene, J M Coetzee (Introduction by) In Graham Greene's brilliant and harrowing psychological portrait of a sadistic young gangster, published in 1938, Pinkie, the teenaged head of a Brighton mob, becomes implicated in a murder early in the story. The only possible witness to the crime is Rose, a naive young waitress in a teashop who mistakes Pinkie's nervous inquiries for a sign of ... see all copies from £7.50! new only from £9.39!
18 view cover	Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II more books like this by J M Coetzee From the acclaimed South African writer, this autobiographical account explores Coetzee's youth as a boy who longs only to escape his homeland. When he finally does get away, however, and is living in London as a lonely computer programmer--rather than the poet he hoped to be--he confronts his disillusion by giving up writing. Coetzee's account of ... see all copies from £5.40! new only from £11.98! \| first editions
19 view cover	Dusklands Dusklands more books like this by J M Coetzee 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 vengence on a Hottentot tribe. see all copies from £8.08! new only from £8.25!
20 view cover	Women and Children First more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor), J M Coetzee, Professor Edward W Said How do we cope with the public and private disaster? Jasmina Tesanovic on being bombed in Belgrade -- "The Diary of a Political Idiot"; Ian Jack on good behavior aboard the Titanic; Joy Williams on the necessary death of her dog Hawk; Edward Said on the shame of his body; James Buchan inside Saddam's Iraq. Plus: Edmund White, and the debut of a ... see all copies from £1.99! new only from £6.05! \| first editions
21 view cover	Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999 more books like this by J M Coetzee The only author ever to win the Booker Prize twice, J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers will have the pleasure of reading his significant body of literary criticism. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form, twenty-six pieces on books and writing, all but one ... see all copies from £5.41! new only from £13.35! \| first editions
22 view cover	Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands more books like this by J M Coetzee (Translator) Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only twenty-two million people has kept its rich poetry more or less a secret. This volume - featuring J. M. Coetzee's finely wrought English ... see all copies from £4.74! new only from £6.57! \| first editions
23 view cover	Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship more books like this by J M Coetzee see all copies from £9.63! new only from £9.63! \| first editions
24	A Land Apart: A Contemporary South African Reader more books like this by Various, Andre Brink (Editor), J M Coetzee (Editor) see all copies from £5.40! new only from £6.75! \| first editions
25 view cover	Stranger Shores: Literary Essays more books like this by J M Coetzee Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic?," Coetzee asks, "What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?" He explores the answer by way of T. S. ... see all copies from £5.40! new only from £9.46!

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