Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the critically acclaimed and Whiting Award-winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman comes a book about what freedom actually means - and where to find it. Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Brooklyn after the Civil War, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a ...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
Outrageous Horizon by Adrien Bosc; Frank Wynne (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Two hundred and fifty members of a new society, floating, stranded at sea, heading for unknown lands, fleeing a Europe in flames.
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
$10.00 AUD
$26.99 (62% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, "Los Angeles Times," and "San Francisco Chronicle"The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of ...Show more
In the Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Based on a true story, this gorgeous novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal--involving newly discovered van Goghs--that rocks Germany amid the Nazis' rise to power. In the turbulent years between the wars, nothing in Berlin is quite what it seems.Not for Emmeline, a w ...Show more
THE PASSIONS OF THE MIND : A NOVEL OFSIGMUND FREUD by IRVING STONE
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A Guardian Book of the Year'Tomasz Jedrowski's Swimming in the Dark is captivating on the twin challenge of being both gay and liberal in communist Poland. An enchanting story of coming out and surviving, just, in a cold climate' Andrew Adonis, Evening Standard Books of the Year'One of the most astonish ...Show more
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
"Ten years ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era and established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a coast-to-coast portrait of America on the cusp of the millennium. Bold, caustic and hilarious, A Man in Full s ...Show more
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
$15.00 AUD
$49.95 (69% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good
A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this "astonishing intellectual journey" by the author of Foucault's Pendulum (San Francisco Chronicle). In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked--on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he ...Show more
England, England by Julian Barnes
$10.00 AUD
$20.67 (51% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. In Julian Barnes's new novel, the grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'Englis ...Show more
All Shook Up by William Bedford
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The follow-up to the author's debut novel, Happiland, which was shortlisted for the 1990 Guardian Fiction Prize.