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Venice architecture both deserves and demands the visitor's close scrutiny. This delightful book is an unusual guide to Venice, lavishly illustrated with watercolour sketches, black and white line drawings, maps,...

It is time to be brave and visible, to love and be loved - and time perhaps to become a hero as the stain of anti-Semitism spreads across Europe. In...

It's 1933, and the political landscape of europe is darkening. Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australia's Fuhrer, is on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over...

In 1932, the RMS Aquitania embodies all that is gracious and refined, in a world gripped by crisis and doubt. Returning home on the luxury liner after months abroad, Rowland...

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior from an outsider who got...

A unique, seminal work about co-opted beliefs when European missionaries encountered Australian Aboriginals. The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was...

Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial...

In a hushed, Italian town after the Second World War Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is of constant concern...

'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones...' So begins the titular essay in Natalia...

The surprising true story of how the course of human history was redirected, time and again, by the pesky mosquito. A ground-breaking work of narrative non-fiction that offers a dramatic...

Have you ever looked at a tree and marveled at its beauty and strength? Or sighed over the colors of a landscape at evening? And as the emotion filled you,...

The book titled Harriette Wilson's Memoirs by the author L. Blanch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Sinai Tapestry by the author Edward Whittemore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Born in the Western Victorian town of Hamilton in 1852, Archie Adams grows to be a skilled horseman with an unusual aptitude for mathematics, which he is encouraged to pursue...

In the first weeks of 1816 Annabella Milbanke left her husband, Lord Byron, taking their month-old daughter with her. They had been married for fifty-four weeks. She never saw him...

'The crowd gasped in amazement. Look at those shoes! Look at him fly!' Jack's Uncle Joe loves to tell stories, and so does Tashi - like the one about the...

'Exchanging nervous glances, Dickson turned to Grierson. Go backstage and make sure they don't kill each other, he said.' In the 1990s, a generation of independent-minded Australian musicians found themselves...

Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes. Since the nation's birth in 1901, twenty-seven politicians have sat in Australia's driving seat. Their time at the top has ranged from eight...

This text is an essay in the retrieval of a lost outlook. The complex of political thought, beliefs about the contemporary world and the perception of history that sustained the...

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of this century. In Britain and the United States in particular, he has acquired...

The book titled Middle Ages by the author H. A. Guerber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Who's Who in Mythology by the author Alexander Stuart Murray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Humans didn't tame animals, animals chose to become tame. Increasingly confrontational, the slogans of animal rights movements state that eating meat is murder, pets are slaves, laboratory animals are prisoners....

Mr Norris wants everyone to know that he is gay. The problem is, no one will believe him. His position isn't helped by the fact that he is living with...

The book titled Dictionary of Idioms: And Their Origins by the author L. Flavell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Styles of Ornament by the author Alexander Speltz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job,...

Since the first world war, many hundreds of pilots have been forced to bail out over water. Sometimes in the heat of battle, sometimes in the calm skies of peace...

For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist with an adoring husband and children, her new patient - Jody Goodman, a witty and attractive young filmmaker - is a welcome diversion from...

In January 1945, the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in...

Hawthorn and Child are mid-ranking detectives tasked with finding significance in the scattered facts. They appear and disappear in the fragments of this book along with a ghost car, a...

When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of...

"The Hundred-Foot Journey" is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across...

Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual visit to her son Silas's grave. The road is flat and featureless, and so she finds herself focussing on an old crack...

WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2013 A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She is a lecturer doing some...

More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and...

'I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...' Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into...

Many accounts of the life of Francis Bacon have been written for scholars. But du Maurier's aim in this biography was to illuminate the many facets of Bacon's remarkable personality...

The Marsden family are deep in debt and in danger of losing their home, Marsden Manor. Sir James Marsden sets sail for London to sell a cargo of coal to...

The book titled Feng Shui by the author April Simmons. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad...

This fictionalized biography chronicles the life of 19th-century explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), credited with discovering the Northwest Passage. A slow, deliberate, and strange child, Franklin joins the Navy at...