Winnie and Wolf by A.N. Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
"Winnie and Wolf" is the story of the extraordinary relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1925-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth. Winifred, an English girl, brought up in an orphanage in East Grinstead, married ...Show more
THE BEDROOM SECRETS OF THE MASTER CHEFS by IRVINE WELSH
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, "A Life in Exile", it never occurs to him that his father, a distinguished professor of rhetoric, will write a devastating review in a leading newspaper. The subject seems inoffensive enough: the life of a German Jewish woman (a close family friend) who arr ...Show more
A Shock by Keith Ridgway
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'A Shock inhabits the secret life of a city, its hidden energies. It dramatizes how patterns form and then disperse, how stories are made and relationships created . . . remarkable' - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn'Political, pertinent, spunky and funny, A Shock is a grand sweep of modern storytelling' ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from the 2021 Booker Prizewinning author Damon Galgut The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the fam ...Show more
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29 ...Show more
Dunster by John Mortimer
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Highly acclaimed novelist John Mortimer presents a novel of friends and enemies--for Philip Progmire, those two roles just happen to be filled by the same person.Dick Dunster and Philip Progmire have been friends since their days at school. They have also been adversaries. Progmire's thespian longings, ...Show more
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Facto ...Show more
Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: General Adult
Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, ...Show more