Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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The Caravaners

The Caravaners

$25.00 AUD
Author: Elizabeth Von ArnimBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis comedic novel chronicles the misadventures of...
Only Owls And Bloody Fools Fly At Night

Only Owls And Bloody Fools Fly At Night

$50.00 AUD
Author: Tom SawyerBinding: HardbackPublished: William Kimber, London, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: SignedIn this gripping and darkly humorous memoir, decorated RAF veteran Group Captain Tom Sawyer pulls no...
The Fast Exit

The Fast Exit

$70.00 AUD
Author: Michael CroninBinding: HardbackPublished: Robert Hale, London , 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed boards in good condition. Worn Dj with some shelfwear. Clean and bright copy....
The Days Of May (SIGNED)

The Days Of May (SIGNED)

$40.00 AUD
Author: Mervyn Wyke EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThe Days Of May chronicles a pivotal period in history, presenting a vivid tableau of societal...
Pinktoes

Pinktoes

$55.00 AUD
Author: Chester HimesBinding: HardbackPublished: Arthur Barker Limited, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis satirical novel, Pinktoes, chronicles the escapades of a vivacious Harlem madam...
Fair Exchange

Fair Exchange

$54.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
Dominant Third

Dominant Third

$20.00 AUD
Author: Elizabeth HelyBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsDominant Third presents a gripping mystery that ensnares readers in a web of secrets and suspense....
A Family That Was

A Family That Was

$30.00 AUD
Author: Ernest RaymondBinding: HardbackPublished: CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD, 1929Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Marks and specks on...
The Edible Woman; Surfacing; Lady Oracle

The Edible Woman; Surfacing; Lady Oracle

$35.00 AUD
Author: Margaret AtwoodBinding: HardbackPublished: Octopus Books., 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight tear to back of DJ and minor bumps to spine.This...
Henry & June

Henry & June

$30.00 AUD
Author: Anais NinBinding: HardbackPublished: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers., 1986Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner sticker and name in FEP.An account of Anais Nin's sexual awakening,...
Iron Honey Gold (Two-Volume Set)

Iron Honey Gold (Two-Volume Set)

$35.00 AUD
Author: David HolbrookBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn and faded pictorial boards. Name on...
False Impression

False Impression

$80.00 AUD
Author: Jeffrey ArcherBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Small tear on top corner of dust jacket as shown in photo.False Impression...
Briefly, a Delicious Life

Briefly, a Delicious Life

$12.00 AUD
*A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed 's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books* An "exquisite...too lovely to bear" ( The New York Times Book Review ) debut novel...
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

$12.00 AUD
In this "fun, page-turner of a novel" (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that's perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin , a morbidly anxious young...
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

$15.00 AUD
"In the 1600s Sara de Vos, a mother and painter, loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl...
Restless Dolly Maunder: Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for

Restless Dolly Maunder: Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for

$45.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood....
Audition

Audition

$39.99 AUD$33.99 AUD
The mesmerising new novel from the author of Intimacies that asks who we are to the people we love Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an...
The Death of Comrade President

The Death of Comrade President

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares -...
That Old Country Music

That Old Country Music

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island , Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of...
The Amateur Marriage: A Novel

The Amateur Marriage: A Novel

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From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage--and its consequences, spanning three generations. They seemed like the perfect couple--young, good-looking, made for each other....
Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom

Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom

$35.00 AUD$10.00 AUD
Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. You never...
Daredevil Vol.3

Daredevil Vol.3

$65.00 AUD$40.00 AUD
Triple Platinum

Triple Platinum

$38.47 AUD$15.00 AUD
FEVER PITCH, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, stands as the definitive statement on the obsessive nature of football fandom. 'His triumph is that, without...
Care of Wooden Floors

Care of Wooden Floors

$12.00 AUD
A witty debut novel about a housesitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong. A British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar's elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum...
Earth

Earth

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From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected. It's the tabloid...
The Street

The Street

$49.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . . In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's...
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

$38.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
'I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined... Look closer, and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.' When...
The Bone Season

The Bone Season

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The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to...
Yerba Buena

Yerba Buena

$49.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
"The book is a sensory feast, teeming with vivid detail: the smells of rain-soaked dirt and magnolia blossoms, the flavors of blistered corn and caramelized orange peel, the chill of...
Harold's End

Harold's End

$12.00 AUD
Harold's end is a street hustler power ballad from San Francisco novelist JT Leroy. A young boy finds solace in a gift from an older, seemingly compassionate man. As with...
Stories for Six Year Olds

Stories for Six Year Olds

$24.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
Ripper stories specially chosen for 6 year olds! Authors include Robin Klein, Sophie Masson, Victor Kelleher and more! A very bossy robot, hats in the playground, a scary garden gnome,...
What I Loved

What I Loved

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A powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages " What I Loved" begins in New York in 1975, when art...
The Sand Castle

The Sand Castle

$10.00 AUD
Since the publication of Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, Rita Mae Brown has been a major American literary voice and a best-selling author. In The Sand Castle , she revisits some...
After Many Days

After Many Days

$12.00 AUD
L.M. Montgomery is beloved by millions of readers around the wrold as the creator of the irresistible Anne Of Green Gables books.Now, in this collection of eighteen rediscovered short stories,...
Men I've Loved Before

Men I've Loved Before

$49.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
How do you know when you ve met the one you re meant to be with? Neil and Nat are a match made in heaven. They hate marmite and the...
Sweet Life

Sweet Life

$38.31 AUD$12.00 AUD
Summer Song

Summer Song

$56.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
Green Harvest

Green Harvest

$39.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
Silver Castle: , the

Silver Castle: , the

$15.00 AUD
Told with Clive James' trademark dry wit, "The Silver Castle" is a tragicomic morality tale for our time. In his astonishing odyssey from the gutter to the soundstages and salons...