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The Primary Colours
This cultural history extends to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological and emotional dimensions of the primary colours. Using poetry, song, fable, opinion, literary criticism,...
An Adultery
$50.00 AUD
Author: Alexander TherouxBinding: HardbackPublished: SIMON AND SCHUSTER, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAn Adultery: A Novel presents a compelling narrative that uncovers the intricate emotional landscape of illicit...
The Hobbit: Or There And Back Again (SIGNED)
$6,500.00 AUD
Edition: Limited Numbered and Signed Edition - No. 90 0f 250 copies. Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed and Numbered by the artist. In a hole...
The Consul's File
'A cool and witty sequence . . . a polished and professional performance' Guardian Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in...
Theroux The Keyhole: Diaries of a Grounded Documentary Maker
Step inside Louis' life like never before as he turns his critical eye on himself, his home, and family and tries to make sense of our weird and sometimes scary...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
The History of Alexander
A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time- Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt,...
Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television
Author: Louis Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic...
The Secret Books
Author: Marcel Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A world on the brink of catastrophe. A two-thousand-year-old mystery. A lost gospel. A young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping...
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...
The Family Arsenal
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A taut and atmospheric thriller set in the grimy backstreets of 1970s...
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
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Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television
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Sunrise With Seamonsters: A Paul Theroux Reader
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers command the vast literary range of Paul Theroux — novelist, travel writer, essayist, and cultural critic...
Madness of Alexander ther Great: And the Myths of Military Genius
Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing...
The Pillars of Hercules: Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
An account of the author's voyage from Gibraltar, one of the Pillars of Hercules, to the southern Pillar. Instead of crossing the straits, he chose to travel the long way,...
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
$12.00 AUD
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
New Modern Classics edition with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning...
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
$12.00 AUD
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Under the Wave at Waimea
From renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing, privilege, mortality and whose lives we choose to remember Joe Sharkey...
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway
$12.00 AUD
Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world's most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia,...
Riding The Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
$30.00 AUD
Author: Paul TherouxBinding: HardbackPublished: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis captivating travelogue, Riding The Iron Rooster: By Train...
Therese Desqueyroux
To tie in with the release of a new film adaptation starring Audrey Tautou, a reissue of Fran ois Mauriac's astonishing and daring 1927 novel Ther se Desqueyroux walks free...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
The ConsulÕs File
$20.00 AUD
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The Family Arsenal
The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood,...
Riding The Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
$25.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Usual aging. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. A landmark work of travel literature, Riding the Iron...
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
Author: Marcel Theroux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A compulsively readable tale, all the better for being set in one of the most secretive countries in the world. In...
Writers and Their Background: Alexander Pope
$15.00 AUD
Author: Peter DixonBinding: SoftbackPublished: G. Bell, 1972Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides an insightful exploration of Alexander Pope, a prominent poet of the English Augustan...
My Past And Thoughts: The Memoirs Of Alexander Herzen
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. One of the great autobiographical works of...
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers
FEATURING BRAND NEW UPDATED CONTENT EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION 'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Fascinating' - Joe Moran 'A very lovely book' - Kate Mosse Bestselling and award-winning authors share the...
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and...
Alexander Herzen And The Role Of The Intellectual Revolutionary
$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few figures in nineteenth-century Russian history burn as fiercely as Alexander Herzen — exile, agitator, and prophet...
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...
The Letters Of Thomas Carlyle To His Brother Alexander: With Related Family Letters
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew windows into the Victorian literary mind are as intimate and unguarded as a collection of private correspondence,...
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
Author: Pat Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history...
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann The subject of this book is the life of the former cement-worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf...
Fracture of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference of Fracture, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 3-7, 2006
Author: E.E. Gdoutos Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 1416 The 16th European Conference of Fracture (ECF16) was held in Greece, July, 2006. It focused on all aspects of...
Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground
Eric Schlosser explores three of the most prominent and least understood features of globalization; drugs, pornography and migrant labour. "Reefer Madness" traces the history of the contemporary "war on drugs"...
Reefer Madness: ... and Other Tales from the American Underground
$10.00 AUD
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