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The Memoirs Of A Survivor; A Novel

The Memoirs Of A Survivor; A Novel

$40.00 AUD
Author: Doris LessingBinding: HardbackPublished: The Octagon Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Fore-edge purple.Doris Lessing's "The Memoirs Of...
Foucault's Pendulum

Foucault's Pendulum

$35.00 AUD
Author: Umberto EcoBinding: HardbackPublished: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUmberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" is a complex and erudite work of literary fiction, blending...
Black, White And Caroline

Black, White And Caroline

$30.00 AUD
Author: Susan ErtzBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1938Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Moderate soiling on white...
Sense And Sensation

Sense And Sensation

$15.00 AUD
Author: Hermann BondiBinding: HardbackPublished: Marshall Cavendish Books Ltd., 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor mark in front end-page.A short study of...
Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing

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#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to...
People of the Silence

People of the Silence

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By A.D. 1150 the Anasazi had created an empire in the Southwest that would never again be equaled in North America. Master astronomers, traders, and architects, they built extraordinary roads...
The Doll

The Doll

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"A heroine every bit as provocative as Stieg Larssons Lisbeth Salander." - The Dallas Morning News b>They took her. Then they took her family. Now shes coming for retribution. amp;#160;...
I Served the King of England OBE/R

I Served the King of England OBE/R

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Ditie, a waiter, loves money, because he is short and money makes him feel six feet tall. So he follows his star from adventure to adventure, until he becomes a...
Dream Count

Dream Count

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Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel SUNDAY TIMES A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...
The Spook Who Sat By The Door: The first Black man in the CIA (2024)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door: The first Black man in the CIA (2024)

$55.00 AUD$46.75 AUD
Continuously available in print since 1969, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook...
Someone I Loved

Someone I Loved

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How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? When Chloe's husband leaves her and their children for...
A New Beginning

A New Beginning

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The Maclaren family may show a united face to the world, but their private lives are very different. For years, Queenie and her daughter LAura have had to protect each...
Little Hands Clapping

Little Hands Clapping

$29.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
The darkest, most twisted novel yet from the author of Timoleon Vieta Come Home. In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers,...
The Behaviour Of Moths

The Behaviour Of Moths

$45.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
An extraordinarily haunting, subtle and moving first novel about secrets and lies and moths From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister...
Scarlet Women: A Novel

Scarlet Women: A Novel

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In the tradition of The Alienist, Scarlet Women evokes the raffish depths beneath the prim Victorian facade of New York City in the 1870s. An assorted collage of rogues, ladies...
Fathers

Fathers

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Annie's Legacy

Annie's Legacy

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Annie Jackson's carefree young life changes in postwar Leeds when her widowed mother, Olga, marries Leonard Spode, a local businessman with political ambitions. To the outside world, he's a loving...
Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff

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One Hundred Great Books in Haiku

One Hundred Great Books in Haiku

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In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, in "The Loose Canon", David Bader applies...
Chromosome 6

Chromosome 6

$12.00 AUD
Mystery/Suspense Large Print Edition * A New York Times Bestseller This harrowing new bestseller by the master of medical thrillers combines the fast action of a nerve-jangling thriller with the...
Elixir

Elixir

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When biologist Christopher Bacon traveled to the rainforests of Papau New Guinea in search of medicinal plants, he had no idea that he would bring home a flower rumored to...
Crossing

Crossing

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Amid the conflict and desolation of post-Communist Albania, teenage boys Agim and Bujar share restless dreams of escape. After Bujar's father dies and Agim's family discover him dressed in his...
Down By The River

Down By The River

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Controversial novel that challenges the moral standing of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.
The Red Fox

The Red Fox

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Beneath the Southern Cross

Beneath the Southern Cross

$27.40 AUD$10.00 AUD
When young Thomas Kendall was convicted of theft and transported to Australia for a period of seven years, he could not have known that he would fall in love with...
Microserfs

Microserfs

$10.00 AUD
Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching...
Lovers and Liars

Lovers and Liars

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The powerful new bestseller from Josephine Cox -- one of our foremost storytellers. It is 1902. Emily is sixteen years of age and blissfully in love with John, two years...
The Breached Wall

The Breached Wall

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The third novel in a historical trilogy, set against the backdrop of WW1. With their menfolk fighting far away in France, the women left behind must take on many burdens....