Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
You were right when you said that people can't always give us what we want from them. Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike su ...Show more
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
"Ten years ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era and established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a coast-to-coast portrait of America on the cusp of the millennium. Bold, caustic and hilarious, A Man in Full s ...Show more
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
$15.00 AUD
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good
A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this "astonishing intellectual journey" by the author of Foucault's Pendulum (San Francisco Chronicle). In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked--on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he ...Show more
England, England by Julian Barnes
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. In Julian Barnes's new novel, the grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'Englis ...Show more
All Shook Up by William Bedford
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The follow-up to the author's debut novel, Happiland, which was shortlisted for the 1990 Guardian Fiction Prize.
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, nine-year-old Maciek's once closeted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, the orphaned Maciek escapes with his sharp-tongued aunt Tania. Posing as Catholic Poles to hide their Jewish identity, they endure the war together--running, hi ...Show more
Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Jackson Brodie | Reading Level: very good
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a f ...Show more
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the "Forgotten War" in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds little has changed, as far as his own limited prospects go, but in his absence his young family has altered immensely. The result is a family in turmoil when Sam resolves to move to Australia.
Look at It This Way by JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel K ...Show more