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The Time of Your Life: Getting on with Getting on
Ageing is that part of the future that we try to keep in the future. And 'nobody likes to get old...that doesn't mean to say you have to be an...
Australian Classic Literature: Three Volume Set
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Granta 150: There Must Be Ways to Organise the World with Language
Four times a year, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from around the world. From Nobel laureates to debut novelists,...
Supernatural Tales from Japan: Ghosts, Goblins, Demons and Magic
Author: Lafcadio Hearn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Eerie tales of Japanese goblins, ghosts and magic beautifully illustrated in a deluxe collector's edition! This collection of fifteen chilling tales...
Botchan: A Novel by Soseki Natsume
Author: Soseki Natsume Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Botchan has a chip on his shoulder. His elder brother is his parents' obvious favorite and Botchan only receives any attention...
Award Winning Australian Writing 2012
Now in its fifth edition, Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. This year,...
Little Black Dress: An Anthology of Short Stories
Classic style never goes out of fashion. Since Coco Chanel invented it in 1926, the little black dress has become every woman's wardrobe staple. It can be a sign of...
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed...
The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
A collection of the year's top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma...
Granta 145: Ghosts
Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes, Roberto Bolano, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nadine Gordimer, Nick Hornby, Kazuo Ishiguro, Han Kang, Stephen King, A.L. Kennedy, Doris Lessing, Ben Marcus, Lorrie Moore, Herta...
After the Plague
A collection of short stories that veer from the psychological to the slapstick, and from surrealism to satire. This collection covers 16 stories which flaunt Boyle's astonishing range. There are...
Footfalls in Memory: Reflections from Solitude
For the first year of his solitary confinement in Beirut, Terry Waite was given nothing to read. During those days, not only did he write his autobiography in his head,...
A Town Without Time: Gay Talese's New York
From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City. "Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed...
Crime: The Pocket Library of Classic Short Stories
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The Essential Dick Gregory
A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case...
Desdemona, If Only You Had Spoken
Contains the monologues of 11 women who speak their minds. The voices are drawn from history and fiction, ancient and modern. Some of the voices are famous because of their...
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle...
Voltaire, Goldberg and Others: A Compendium of the Witty, the Profound
The book titled Voltaire, Goldberg and Others: A Compendium of the Witty, the Profound by the author Milton Shulman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Culprit: A Crime Writers' Annual: 3rd
The book titled Culprit: A Crime Writers' Annual: 3rd by the author Liza Cody. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Aiming For The Skies
Fay Marles has lived a life of firsts. As Victoria s first Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, she played an instrumental role in the landmark case that resulted in Ansett employing...
The Complete Works
The book titled The Complete Works by the author Oscar Wilde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self
If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say? In Dear Me, some of the world's best loved personalities have written just such a...
Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume
The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Scandinavian and American sources,...
If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies
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This companion volume to the award-winning anthology, When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, illuminates the experiences of women, young and old, reflecting on the choices they...
Microstories
Contains 47 microstories or tales of less than 1000 words, most of which were originally commissioned for publication in 'Australian Book Review'. Includes contributions by Australian writers such as Marion...
The Friendship Book: 2006
A wonderful annual read that provides day after day heartfelt, warming, uplifting thoughts for the reader. Full of memorable quotes and color photoghraphs that remind the reader of the charm...
The Queer Bible
'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...
Invitation to the Garden: A Literary and Photographic Celebration
More than 100 images are paired with a diverse international selection of literary works. The words and images capture the thoughts, feelings and moods that gardens and gardening arouse. A...
Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging - Volume Silver
For the lovers of things that go bump in the night Here be stories of South African grootslang and bayou grundylow, tales of elementals, jackelopes, and flying motels. Within you'll...
Famous Last Words
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The book titled Famous Last Words by the author Jonathon Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Open City: Seven Writers in Postwar Rome
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A MAGIC DECADE OF Italian writing followed the fall of Benito Mussolini's Fascist government and the liberation of Rome in 1944. Ignazio Silone, author of one of the great novels...
And Sugar Crashes
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Deeply moving and now with the added intricacies of professional illustrations, And Sugar Crashes is the syrupy sequel to Of Lips and Lashes. Featuring poems largely inspired by infatuation, music...
Of Lips And Lashes
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Raw, real and emotion-charged, this collection of poetry encompasses the thoughts that have undoubtedly gone through the heads of every lover, fighter, and heartbroken soul. These poems are creative and...
Culprit: A Crime Writers' Annual: 2nd
The book titled Culprit: A Crime Writers' Annual: 2nd by the author Liza Cody. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Best Australian Science Writing 2013
Could the dodo make a comeback? What does science tell us about the sex in Fifty Shades of Grey ? Is giving up meat really the greenest option? Can you...
The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking
Alcohol is mankind's favourite drug. Tipple, red-eye, poison, mother's ruin, mud in your eye, juice, sauce, a shot of the hard stuff and plonk - all of these terms are...
River Stories
From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi-the rivers of the world wind through this glorious anthology from the world's great writers. Rivers and streams play...
Speaking with the Angel
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Nick Hornby...Giles Smith...Helen Fielding...Roddy Doyle...Irvine Welsh...Zadie Smith...Dave Eggers...Robert Harris...Melissa Bank...Patrick Marber...Colin Firth...John O'Farrell Compiled by bestselling author Nick Hornby and featuring brand new stories from the hottest writers on both...
Bedroom Eyes: Stories of Lesbians in the Boudoir
In the best-selling tradition of Pillow Talk (over 9,000 copies sold), this steamy anthology features the dazzling talents of favourite lesbian authors such as Ruthann Robson and Jane Futcher, as...
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
As she works her way from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, growing older and getting smarter, Jane manoeuvres her way through love, sex, relationships, and the occasional perils of...
The Penguin Book of Diaries
People are compelled to keep diaries for a great many different reasons. Although they are the most private form of writing, there have been few diarists who have not in...
Hardly Knew Her
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"Lippman is a writing powerhouse." -- USA Today New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction--including the Edgar(R), Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero...