{"product_id":"9781776951031","title":"Stakes","description":"Author: McCarthy, Noelle\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781776951031\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin NZ\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author's bestselling memoir, \u003ci\u003eGrand.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire's badness in the house with you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker's \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTwenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e, reckoning with her own history and a changing world- generation-spanning shame and trauma given voice by #MeToo and the horrors emerging from Irish soil.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMore than a century after readers were first mesmerised by \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStakes \u003c\/i\u003etransposes its electric themes of transgression, intoxication and sexual danger onto Noelle's own life, asking- what's the difference between an inheritance and a curse? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA funny, visceral follow-up to the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eGrand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStakes \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates the power of a gothic horror to help you face the parts of life that scare you most.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47792148611230,"sku":"UBD-9781776951031","price":36.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781776951031.jpg?v=1780915317","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781776951031","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}