20th Century History

Sort by:
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea: Vintage Quarterbound Classics

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea: Vintage Quarterbound

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic. 'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times...
A Small Town in Germany

A Small Town in Germany

$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
A hardback series for le Carre collectors West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British...
Enbury Heath

Enbury Heath

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Gibbons' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about three siblings living in a Hampstead Heath cottage 'Don't show proper feelin', does it, not turnin' up for 'is dad's funeral?' Siblings Sophia, Harry and...
Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Ernest Hemingway's last novel written before his death and his most autobiographical Hemingway's last major novel, set in the Gulf Stream islands, captures the struggles of adult personal relationships in...
The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Funny, irreverent and full of joy, this is the perfect book to accompany you on holiday - a celebration of escaping the everyday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN Mrs...
Uncle Dynamite

Uncle Dynamite

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
With a brand new introduction from Greg James, this caper of supreme joy is a Wodehouse classic. 'A colourful universe of aristocratic buffoonery and public school nonsense' Greg James, host...
The Moon and the Bonfires

The Moon and the Bonfires

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back...
The Naive and Sentimental Lover

The Naive and Sentimental Lover

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Le Carre's singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful,...
Dubliners

Dubliners

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND...
Stoner: A Novel

Stoner: A Novel

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
The greatest rediscovered classic of recent years, Stoner is a literary legend. This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic....
Maigret's Pickpocket: Inspector Maigret #66

Maigret's Pickpocket: Inspector Maigret #66

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
Inspector Maigret falls victim to a pickpocket and is drawn into a peculiar incident A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet only to return it the following day, on the condition that...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
'One of the century's greatest writers' Sunday Times Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales...
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
This beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Secret Garden is unabridged and includes 8 illustrations by Charles Robinson. When Mary Lennox is sent from India to the moors of...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
Homeland: Carrie's Run

Homeland: Carrie's Run

$17.99 AUD$8.00 AUD
An edge-of-your-seat original prequel novel based on Showtime's hit series, HOMELAND, 'the best thriller on American television' New York Post Beirut, 2006. CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison barely escapes an...