Fiction

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the rain-soaked streets of Glasgow, Detective Jack Laidlaw is drawn into a labyrinthine investigation when a dying tramp whispers a cryptic message that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet in the wild, untamed Northern Territory of Australia during the early twentieth century, Capricornia is a sprawling, savage masterpiece that chronicles the lives of white...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCaddie is one of Australia's most remarkable and enduring autobiographical works — a raw, unfiltered account of a woman's desperate struggle to survive the grinding poverty...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most profoundly moving documents to emerge from the horrors of the Second World War, The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingIn Woman Beware Woman, Emma Tennant crafts a razor-sharp feminist fable that dissects the precarious social fabric binding women together — and tearing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a world fractured by tyranny and silenced by oppression, The Last Song of Manuel Sendero unfolds as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the sun-drenched homesteads of colonial Australia to the drawing rooms of a nation finding its identity, A Mavis Singing:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the gritty, working-class landscapes of Yorkshire emerges a collection of short fiction that captures the quiet desperation, longing, and resilience of ordinary lives: Stan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA small green button accordion, handcrafted in Sicily and smuggled into America at the turn of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most sweeping chronicles of Irish suffering and survival ever written, The Great Shame traces...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the vivid backdrop of newly independent India in the early 1950s, A Suitable Boy chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWelcome to Moo University — a vast, sprawling Midwestern land-grant institution where ambition, eccentricity, and self-interest collide with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched hills of Natal, South Africa, a humble Zulu pastor named Stephen Kumalo embarks on a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when the gilded promise of a Vassar education collides with the messy, unforgiving realities of adult life? The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSoaring above the lush highlands and shimmering coastlines of Papua New Guinea, Paradise Tales captures the vibrant spirit of a nation through...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadow of Soviet-era Moscow, where the forgotten dead are tended by the overlooked living, The Humble Cemetery presents a stark and unflinching...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the charged political atmosphere of Cold War Australia, Mena Calthorpe's The Defectors presents a gripping narrative of divided loyalties,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the volatile backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa, Episode by Harry Bloom is a gripping and morally charged novel that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the centre of a turbulent 1970s British university campus stands Howard Kirk, a radical sociology professor whose calculated charm, political certainty, and voracious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the rolling hills of the Māori heartland to the bustling streets of urban New Zealand, The New Net Goes Fishing presents...

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...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodOne of the most explosive and controversial novels ever written on Australian soil, Power Without Glory is a sweeping, fictionalised chronicle of John West —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew regions on Earth inspire such raw, mythic storytelling as the vast and unforgiving landscape of Western Australia,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat did it truly mean to be a woman in Victorian England — and what did marriage demand...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the sweeping arc of Australian history, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow is a daring and intellectually...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageGrace Paley's debut collection, The Little Disturbances of Man, is a landmark of American short fiction — a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePublished in 1948 against the backdrop of a nation on the precipice of institutionalised racial segregation, Cry, The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched bush tracks to the rowdy pubs of colonial Australia, Henry Lawson's gift for comic storytelling captures the larrikin spirit of a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the labyrinthine streets of Venice to the suburban quietude of mid-century Australia, The Cats of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sleepy, sun-baked provincial town of Redheap, the hypocrisies and rigid moral codes of early twentieth-century Australian...

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...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodSet against the vast, sun-baked landscape of rural Australia, Little Sticks: The Story of Two Brothers chronicles the intertwined lives of two...