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On Distant Ground
The winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. An army intelligence captain is to be court-martialled for having kidnapped and set free a Viet Cong officer. This forces him...
Modern Philosophy
Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, and this book is considered by many to be the best philosophical primer since Bertrand Russell's The...
Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent
In November 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud set out to achieve what no one had ever done: to walk and ski - unsupported - the 2700km across...
Special Operations Executive: Outline History of the Special
SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department, set up in July 1940. Its job was to support and stimulate resistance in...
The Battle of Hurtgen Forest: Untold Story of a Disastrous Campaign
Thirty thousand American GI's were killed or wounded in the longest battle ever fought by the US Army - a battle that has been ignored for more than 40 years....
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
The definitive study, in words and pictures, of the Queen Mother. From her happy childhood, through her marriage to the Duke of York and his accession as King George VI,...
The Caribbean
The book titled The Caribbean by the author James A. Michener. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Without Trace: The Last Voyages of Eight Ships
The book titled Without Trace: The Last Voyages of Eight Ships by the author John Harris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Room at the Top
The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of...
A Cotswold Ordeal
Thea Osborne embarks on her second house - sitting commission with very few worries. The Phillipses are obviously a laid back family. But she soon finds herself in the centre...
The Truth Commissioner
Henry Stanfield is pleased with his new title: 'Truth Commissioner' has a pleasing ring to it. But his neutrality, as the product of an Irish Catholic mother and an English...
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,' he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago,...
A Bit of Earth
Susannah Misselthwaite was gazing up at the brightness of the blue sky when the deer leapt in front of the car. She never knew what happened. Her husband Guy, Professor...
The Highest Tide
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One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly, he becomes a...
The Bowl is Already Broken
Promise Whittaker is the diminutive, cartoon-voiced acting director of the National Museum of Asian Art. Her mentor, the previous director, is now lost in the Taklamakan desert. Her favourite curator...
Aloft
_________________ 'The prose Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic - beautifully made' - New Yorker 'Truly remarkable ... one of the best novels I've read this year. Don't miss it...
Love Works Like This: Travels Through a Pregnant Year
"Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?", asks Lauren Slater in this book about love. Slater, career-oriented and wilfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process...
Riding the Skies: Classic Posters from the Golden Age of Flying
The book titled Riding the Skies: Classic Posters from the Golden Age of Flying by the author Jan Morris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Dear Mr Shaw: Selections from Bernard Shaw's Postbag
___________________ SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S POSTBAG ____________________ '...wonderful entertainment' - Julian Symons, SUNDAY TIMES 'Shaw's charm and brilliance pervade this book' - Piers Brendon, OBSERVER '...sparkling celebration of a...
The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets
The book titled The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets by the author Robert Giddings. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Darkness Falls from the Air
The book titled Darkness Falls from the Air by the author Nigel Balchin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British
The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Havoc, in its Third Year
England in the 1630s: turbulent times, with fears of foreign invasion and Catholic conspiracies rife. John Brigge, a farmer and coroner, is respected in his North Country community, but harbours...
Climate Change and Society
This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the...
Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
This major new book is the most up-to-date account of current feminist debates, written by some of the world's leading feminist thinkers. The 1980s saw a devastating critique of the...
Under the Persimmon Tree
An outstanding novel exploring the relationship between a young American woman and a refugee girl. Northern Afghanistan, 2001. When the Taliban takes her brother and father to be soldiers and...
Seven Houses: A Novel
"An exotic and beautiful story" (Isabel Allende) chronicling the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into...
You: The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best
America's doctors, Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, show you how to become your own medical detective and get the best health care possible. Everyone needs to become a smart patient....
Courageous 128 Piece Matchbox Puzzle
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Raxenne Manniquiz of a tiger and flowers on black background. This puzzle is uniquely packaged in matchbox-style box with slide-out drawer, pefect for gifting, reuse, and storage. * 128 Pieces...
Crossing Country: Alchemy of Western
The wealth of rock art that proliferates in Western Arnhem Land in the northern part of Australia is of immense significance as evidence of the world's oldest continuous culture, featuring...
It's a Beautiful Day: New Painting in Australia: 2
The book titled It's a Beautiful Day: New Painting in Australia: 2 by the author Bala Starr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Long Walk
What do you do when your mother falls ill and is sent to rest at home, and your father is away working on the Great Ocean Road? How do you...
In Defence of Classical Music
Why does anyone still bother with classical music?How can the string quartets of Brahms or the symphonies of Beethoven possibly be relevant in our post-9/11 world?In this stimulating and provocative...
The Bill: The inside Story of the Popular Police Series Seen on ABC TV
The book titled The Bill: The inside Story of the Popular Police Series Seen on ABC TV by the author Tony Lynch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
Full Strength
The ultimate Les Norton collection no.2 A collection of three of Bob Barrett's Les Norton stories. LEAVING BONDI - Les figured by tossing $50,000 into the Gull's movie he'd become...
And in the Morning: A Novel of Love and War
Based on thorough research, this is the story of Gallipoli as seen through the eyes of two brothers fighting on the beach and a female Australian nurse. It gives an...
Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland
The book titled Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland by the author Queensland Museum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies
This text reviews feminist art strategies as they emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s in America and the UK. It draws together the views of prominent practitioners, critics,...