Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
In Arabella Thorne, Elizabeth Jolley has created a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels - with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl protégée - is the inheritance that transforms the uneventful life of drab Miss Peabody. 'Delicatel ...Show more
Sorry by Gail Jones
$10.00 AUD
$19.99 (49% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
This is a story that can only be told in a whisper...In the remote outback of North-west Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her childhood is far from ordinary; a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and ...Show more
The Salamander by Morris West
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
An Italian general is found dead in his apartment. Next to his body is a small card inscribed with a salamander in a bed of flames. Is it suicide or murder?Dante Matucci, a captain in the Italian secret service, begins an investigation that leads him into a maze of political violence and intrigue. He me ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old Br ...Show more
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
$10.00 AUD
$24.95 (59% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
In 1827, in a hut on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. Carney, an illiterate Irishman, is to be hanged at dawn. Adair, also Irish, has been sent to supervise the hanging. The novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice.
The Electrical Experience by Frank Moorhouse
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
T. George McDowell believes in getting the job done. 'I do not care for words in top hats. I believe in shirt-sleeve words. I believe in getting the job done. We're like that on the coast.' T. George McDowell, a manufacturer of soft drinks on the south coast of New South Wales, prides himself on extolli ...Show more
Bright Planet by Peter Mews
$10.00 AUD
$22.00 (54% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A witty high seas adventure about ambition, exploration and death in Australia.In 1841, it is deemed by the elite of a London club that an expedition should set off for Australia, so that
The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
$10.00 AUD
$22.95 (56% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
'In The Orchard [Modjeska] further develops her distinctive style, weaving fact with fiction, the essay with a flowing fictional narrative, and stories within stories... Modjeska is accessible and entertaining, a good story-teller... Love, adultery, marriage, and domination; sight, the fear of blindness ...Show more