The Firm by John Grisham

$100.00 AUD

Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

$10.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder : periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. His disappearances are spontaneous and his experiences are alternately harrowing and amusing. "The Time Traveler's Wife" depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's passionate love for each other with grace and humour. Their struggle to lead normal lives in the face of a force they can neither prevent nor control is intensely moving and entirely unforgettable. ...Show more

WORTHINGTON BILBOW , ESQ. by MARJORIE AND ANTONY BILBOW

$22.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

The Art of Racing in the Rain : A Novel by Garth Stein

$10.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

A heart-warming and inspirational tale in which Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together. Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watchi ng extensive television, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo realizes that racing is a metaphor: that by applying the techniques a driver would apply on the race track, one can successfully navigate the ordeals and travails one encounters in life. Enzo relates the story of his human family through his eyes, sharing the tragedies and triumphs that Denny and his wife and child. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations as a dog, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family. The Art of Racing in the Rain is a testament to a man's life, given by his dog. But it is also a testament to the dog, himself. Though Enzo cannot speak, he understands everything that happens around him as he bears witness to his master's ordeal.His enforced muteness only refines his listening ability, and allows him to understand many of life's nuances that are lost on most humans. First published 2008. ...Show more

Finding Jack by Gareth Crocker

$10.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

After losing his young family, Fletcher Carson joins the flagging war effort in Vietnam where he rescues a yellow Lab whom he names Jack. At the end of the war, the US Government announces that due to the cost of withdrawal, all US dogs will not be transported home. Ordered to leave Jack behind, Fletche r refuses - and so begins their journey. ...Show more

The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith

$10.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Isobel Dalhousie

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an agent of God, can return to us. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well. ...Show more

The Talisman of Troy - Heroes to the Death by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

$10.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

Another epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of Spartan and The Last Legion. A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible, fascinating story to tell - the true reason for which the Trojan War was fought . . . The protag onist of this tale is Diomedes, the last of the great ancient Greek Homeric heroes, who seeks to return to his beloved homeland after years of war against Troy. But destiny has other plans for him. Betrayed by his wife, who plots to murder him, and persecuted by hostile gods, he has no choice but to turn his sails west, towards Hesperia, the mysterious mist-shrouded land that will one day be called Italy. He ventures boldly into this new world, for he carries with him the magic Talisman of Troy, a mysterious, powerful idol that can make the nation that possesses it invincible ...Show more

Ghostbusters by Larry Milne

$15.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

Jaws 2 by Hank Searls

$12.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

Panzer Platoon, Blitzkrieg! by Gunther Lutz

$20.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

Rommel's Last Battle by Leo Kessler

$30.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS

North Africa, 1943. FM Rommel of the German Afrikakorps is at the end of his tether. He's sick, defeated by British General Montgomery and out of favour with Hitler. He decides to achieve one more victory over the 'new boys', the Americans who have just arrived in Tunisia.

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

$19.99 AUD

Category: General Fiction | Series: Calhoun Family Saga Ser.

A beautiful new edition of Nicholas Sparks's classic novel to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.   Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The N otebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again...   At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle... ...Show more