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The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the Soviet Union's twilight years, The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories presents a remarkable window into the literary renaissance that...
The Miraculous Barber
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st eng ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of France's most singular and subversive literary voices comes The...
The Exiles
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA haunting meditation on displacement and identity, The Exiles follows a group of American expatriates adrift...
Fiction In The Historical Present: French Writers And The Thirties
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent decade between two world wars, French literature became a battleground of ideas — and Fiction in the Historical Present: French Writers...
The Affair
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn the cloistered world of a Cambridge college, a scandal threatens to unravel the carefully maintained fabric...
Earthly Powers
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the twentieth century's most audacious literary achievements opens with a line that immediately signals its ambition: an eighty-one-year-old homosexual novelist,...
A Low Breed
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Note: DJ repaired with tapes. Bold, irreverent, and bracingly unconventional, A Low Breed by Joseph Johnson is a...
The Warsaw Document: The New Quiller
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Note: DJ price clipped. Behind the Iron Curtain, where shadows are currency and trust is a...
Short Fiction Of The Masters
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark collection in the tradition of literary education, Short Fiction of the Masters gathers some of the...
The Moneychangers
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the ruthless corridors of American high finance, The Moneychangers by Arthur Hailey plunges the reader into the treacherous world of a major U.S....
Shame
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a fictional country that mirrors Pakistan with unsettling precision, Salman Rushdie's Shame chronicles the rise and fall of two powerful families — the...
Another Life And The House On The Embankment
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markFrom the shadowed corridors of Soviet Moscow emerges a master of moral introspection: Yuri Trifonov's Another Life and The House on the Embankment...
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$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket - otherwise fine. A single letter becomes the rallying cry of a nation in Vassilis...
Add A Dash Of Pity: Short Stories
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly versatile minds comes Add a Dash of...
No Place On Earth
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the haunting and luminous No Place on Earth, Christa Wolf conjures an imagined meeting between two real historical figures — the tortured Romantic...
As A Man Grows Older
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the fog of middle-aged longing and quiet desperation, As A Man Grows Older chronicles the ill-fated romantic obsession of Emilio Brentani,...
Vile Bodies
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures...
Black Mischief
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsSet against the backdrop of a fictional African empire teetering on the edge of modernity, Black Mischief is...
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the backdrop of bohemian London in the 1930s, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in...
Promise At Dawn: A Memoir
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew memoirs capture the ferocity of a mother's love and its lifelong consequences with the raw,...
The Last Summer
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the trembling backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia, The Last Summer is a luminous novella that chronicles a...
The Crystal Garden
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of The Crystal Garden lies a beautifully observed portrait of suburban English life, where the...
Alien Son
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTo grow up is to navigate a world that was never built for you — and for the...
Back Of Sunset
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of Australia, Back of Sunset by Jon Cleary is a gripping tale...
Waterland
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the flat, watery fenlands of East Anglia, Waterland is a mesmerising and deeply unsettling masterwork that chronicles the fractured life of Tom...
Something Out There
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadow of apartheid's iron grip on South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's Something Out There presents a masterful collection of short stories and a novella...
The Heat Of The Day
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Set against the shadow-laden streets of wartime London during the Blitz, The Heat...
Honour Among Thieves
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadowy corridors of international intrigue, Honour Among Thieves pits the ambitions of a rogue nation against the ingenuity of a lone CIA operative...
A Painted House
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the cotton fields of rural Arkansas in the autumn of 1952, seven-year-old Luke Chandler witnesses a world he is far too young to fully...
Perfect Love
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the quietly turbulent world of suburban Melbourne, Laurie Clancy's Perfect Love chronicles the lives of characters caught between longing and reality,...
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; Call For The Dead; A Murder Of Quality; The Looking-Glass War; A Small Town In Germany
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew names in twentieth-century fiction carry the weight and moral authority of John le Carré, and this handsome omnibus — collecting five of his...
The Wort Papers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the singular imagination of Peter Mathers — the audacious Australian voice behind Trap — comes The Wort Papers, a...
A Diver In China Seas: Stories
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj warped within mylar. From the sharp, observant pen of one of Scotland's most underrated literary voices comes A Diver in China...
Best Australian Short Stories
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark gathering of Australia's finest literary voices, Best Australian Short Stories presents a masterfully curated selection of tales that capture the...
The Rainbow Bird
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the vivid, sun-scorched landscape of rural Australia, The Rainbow Bird by Vance Palmer chronicles...
Throwing Shadows
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFive young people stand at the edge of self-discovery in Throwing Shadows, E. L. Konigsburg's celebrated...
The Cousin From Fiji
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNorman Lindsay's The Cousin from Fiji is a sparkling comic novel set in the boisterous world...
Political Fictions
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn an Australia gripped by political turbulence and social upheaval, Michael Wilding's Political Fictions presents a razor-sharp collection of stories that chronicle the ideological...
An Interlude In Spain
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the sun-scorched landscapes and turbulent soul of Spain, An Interlude in Spain transports the reader into a world of vivid...
Seeds Of Corruption
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched banks of the Nile to the fractured heart of modern Egypt, Seeds of Corruption presents a gripping portrait of a society...
Clochemerle-Les-Bains
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the irresistibly comic world of the fictional French village of Clochemerle, Gabriel Chevallier returns with Clochemerle-les-Bains, a satirical romp...
Archipelagoes
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of Australia's most versatile and celebrated literary voices comes Archipelagoes, a collection of short...
Small World: An Academic Romance (SIGNED)
$140.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Good condition, usual aging for a book of this era. What happens when the ivory tower collides with the...
The Gourmet And Other Stories Of Modern China
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the culinary alleyways of Suzhou to the ideological upheavals of twentieth-century China, The Gourmet and Other Stories of Modern China presents...
Stories
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the political upheaval of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution to the quiet tragedies of everyday Latin American life, Sergio Ramírez's Stories presents a vivid mosaic...
The Sleep Of Reason
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of the English novel, The Sleep of Reason chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling...
Last Things
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingThe final curtain falls on one of twentieth-century British fiction's most ambitious sagas as Last Things...
The Rainbow
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most daring and passionately argued novels of the twentieth century, The Rainbow charts the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen...