The Wall of the Plague by André Brink
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins to enjoy more and more of the idyllic lifestyle. Travelling with Mandla, a fellow South African and Black ...Show more
On the Yankee Station by William Boyd
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. ...Show more
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young ambitious architect is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in c ...Show more
Praying Mantis by André Brink
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the Lon ...Show more
DESTINY OF NATHALIE X AND OTHER STORIES - SIGNED by William Boyd
$50.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
NAT TATE : AN AMERICAN ARTIST 1928-1960 by William Boyd
$115.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The upheavals of World War II reverberated in the peace that followed, and many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had thought. Like Sam Richardson, who was determined to break free of the constraints of his background and leave Cumbria for the promised land of Australia.
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Everything Is Not Enough by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The brilliant second novel from the acclaimed author of In Every Mirror She's Black follows three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in Stockholm.Yasmiin cannot comprehend what the policeman is saying to her. Her friend in a coma? Attempted suicide? Discovering she's liste ...Show more
Suddenly by Isabelle Autissier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A gripping story of survival set against the stark backdrop of the Antarctic Ocean, a couple shipwrecked on an island must trust each other with their lives. A young couple sets out on a journey by yacht around Cape Horn, but the adventure of a lifetime soon becomes a fight for survival. When they are ...Show more
Still Life by Sarah Winman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Over 500,000 copies sold internationallyA BBC Between the Covers Book Club PickA BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeWinner of Dymocks Book of the Year *Special gold limited edition* 'Sheer joy' GRAHAM NORTON 'Utterly beautiful ... filled with hope' JOANNA CANNON 'A gorge ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. READ SOME PAGES There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre co ...Show more