Christina Stead

• Jun-1966
• / General Fiction
• 

This novel is a study of the savage warfare between Henrietta and her husband Sam, an impractical idealist who has nearly brought his family to ruin. It also tells the story of the children who, growing up in an increasingly bizarre household, try to...

• Apr-1975
• / General Fiction
• 

After the Second World War, bizarre characters from across the ruined continent have gathered at the ‘fourth-rate’ Hotel Swiss-Touring by Lake Geneva. Some are residents, while other guests have come for the season. In the claustrophobic atmosphe...

• 1979
• / General Fiction
• 

One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods upon me, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel ...

• Apr-1979
• / General Fiction
• 

High-minded, independent, imaginative, Teresa Hawkins knows only one commandment 'Thou shalt love'. Emotionally starved by her ramshackle family, Teresa searches for fulfillment outside her stultifying life as a working girl in a large city. Obsessed...

• May-1986
• / General Fiction
• 

• Sep-1987
• / General Fiction
• 

Christina Stead’s unforgettable final novel—a profound examination of love and radicalism during the McCarthy eraIn the wake of the Great Depression, Emily Wilkes, a young American journalist, travels to a Europe still scarred by World Wa...

• Dec-1987
• / General Fiction
• 

From London's East End to Newcastle, this novel draws a picture of oppresssion, betrayal in the trade unions and Labour party and of hope deferred, through the lives of the working-class Cotter family. It also deals with the different kinds of love a...

• Oct-2012
• / Literary
• 

The devious world of international finance comes alive in Christina Stead’s enthralling epic about a ruthless bank director in 1930s Paris Praised as “a work of extraordinary talent” by the New York Times, Christina Stead’s ambitiously l...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
• 

From Paris to London to wartime New York, a young woman comes of age -- and comes apart -- in this witty novel by the author of The Man Who Loved Children. When Letty Fox first arrives in Manhattan, her goal is to escape her chaotic upbringing in Lon...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
• 

• Oct-2016
• / Literary
• 

It is 1934, and Elvira Western has left London and her dull marriage to Paul, a doctor, for Paris and her waiting lover, Oliver, a student radical. But drab hotels and interminable discussions of politics are not her idea of romance, and soon Elvira ...

• Oct-2016
• / Literary
• 

New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets h...

• Oct-2016
• / Literary
• 

Eighteen-year-old Honor Lawrence is out of place at the bank where she works. When she refuses to accept a promotion, despite her obvious poverty, her mentor, Augustus Debrett, doesn’t quite know what to make of it, or of her. Honor is an enigma --...

• May-2017
• / Literary
• 

It is 1934. Elvira Western has left London and her dull marriage to Paul, a doctor, for Paris and her waiting lover, Oliver, a student radical. But drab hotels and interminable discussions of politics are not her idea of romance, and soon Elvira i...

• Feb-2024
• / General Fiction
• 

Introduction by Hilary McPhee'I am not a born writer, but I must say that when I have actually launched myself I get the profoundest and most passionate satisfaction from writing.'-Christina SteadA Web of Friendship is a collection of Christina Stead...

• Jul-2024
• / Literary
• 

Introduction by Delia FalconerOriginally published in 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney is Christina Stead's first novel, a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil.Set a...