Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the award-winning author of The Sudden Appearance of Hope and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August comes a story exploring humankind's ability to change the paths we seem fated to follow--even after the world has burned. Once, we lived through the Burning Age--the time when we cared so little f ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
$20.00 AUD
$49.99 (59% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Dave Robicheaux Ser.
'Hurricane Katrina ripped the soul out of Burke's beloved New Orleans and inspired him to write what has to be his most gripping thriller to date.' Mirror New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, t ...Show more
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
$15.00 AUD
$39.95 (62% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Jack Reacher Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of ...Show more
The Second Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer
$25.00 AUD
$32.00 (21% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Horace Rumpole turns down yet another invitation to exchange the joys and sorrows of life as an Old Bailey hack for the delights of the sunshine state, where Senior Citizens loll on beaches and the sarcastic tones of the Mad Bull (Judge Roger Bullingham) are heard no more. He settles instead for the bea ...Show more
The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
"One of those books you're likely to remember all your life." --Alexandra Shulman, Vogue (UK) For readers of The Orphan Train and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes "not just a story of love but a story of loss, one whose voice will touch even the coldest of hearts." --BookPage Engl ...Show more
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
$15.00 AUD
$32.99 (54% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Atlit is a holding camp for "illegal" immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Shayndel is a Polish Zionist who fought t ...Show more
Night Prey by Carol Davis Luce
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
When he wanted a woman, he took her. His victim was always so disappointing, forcing him to dispose of her and move on to the next one. This time it would be different. Sisters. He would take them both--and keep the best. She would be his ultimate prize.Roberta Paxton had a challenging, rewarding job, a ...Show more