On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Set in America in 1959, this is the story of Mary van der Linden and her family, comprising two children and her husband, Charlie. An American newspaper reporter, Frank Renzo dramatically enters the van der Lindens' lives, and through him Mary is forced to confront the terror of the Cold War that is the ...Show more
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erhard grand piano. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British ...Show more
People Park by Pasha Malla
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrator Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its resi ...Show more
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andreï Makine
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
In the summer of 1947, a small town outside Paris is rocked by scandal when a member of its Russian emigr community drowns in a boating incident and the woman with him, an enigmatic White Russian princess, is charged with his murder. But Olga Arb lina is acquitted. Then the story unfolds of the precedin ...Show more
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. This is where Louise and Schmidt's story begins, with a backward step. Intertwining two love stories across three generations, the Booker-shortlisted author of Mister Pip takes us to Buenos Aires, New Zealand and Sydney. ...Show more
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
As a child Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in a volume of fiction edited by his Swiss grandparents. He initially reads only part of the tale, which has been torn from the bound proofs, the blank back pages of which he uses for his homework. He becomes obsessed with this tale of ...Show more
Thirst by Amélie Nothomb; Alison Anderson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The Gospel according to Amelie.
The Child by Kjersti A. Skomsvold; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Narrated by a woman to her new-born, meandering between her enchanted present and her memories of a more difficult past, The Child is a modern exploration of the territory of motherhood.
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onoubia
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In Igboland, the lives of two Nigerian women change forever...
Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A devastating, darkly comic story of a woman's slide into depression and institutionalisation from a master of razor-edged literary humour.
Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok by Emma Larkin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The secrets hidden in an overgrown plot of land in the centre of Bangkok reveal the politics, society and culture of contemporary Thailand; in an authentic and luminous debut novel for readers of Jennifer Egan and Jonathan Coe.