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Modern Family: Wit and Wisdom from America's Favourite Family
Fans of Channel 10's hit MODERN FAMILY -- the No.1 TV show in Australia with 1.1 million consistent viewers -- rejoice! The Pritchetts and Dunphys have got together to share...
Families: Modern Australian Short Stories
Memorable short stories by Cate Kennedy, Tim Winton, David Malouf and many more of Australia's best contemporary writers. Some of Australia's finest writers - and some who should be better...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
The autobiography of one of the world's most talented and intriguing writers, reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics 'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him...
Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld's most popular novel yet, her breakout new Sunday Times bestseller and reader favourite, THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A hilarious,...
At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life
Author: James & Clair Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 CLAIR: We've been let loose on a book... whose bright idea was that? JAMES: We haven't got anything to...
The Making Of The Modern Family
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingWhat transformed the cold, utilitarian household of pre-modern Europe into the emotionally charged, child-centred sanctuary we recognise today? Edward Shorter's landmark work, The...
A Very Modern Family: Stories and guidance to nurture your relationships
Author: Carrie Grant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'So much more than a parenting manual - the Grants have thrown out a lifeline' THE TIMES 'The most extraordinary parenting...
A Very Modern Family: Stories and guidance for brave parenting when
'So much more than a parenting manual - the Grants have thrown out a lifeline' THE TIMES 'The most extraordinary parenting guide of our time' DAILY MAIL A breakout book...
A Very Modern Family: Stories and guidance to nurture your relationships
Author: Carrie Grant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'So much more than a parenting manual - the Grants have thrown out a lifeline' THE TIMES 'The most extraordinary parenting...
A Very Modern Family: Stories and guidance for brave parenting when
'So much more than a parenting manual - the Grants have thrown out a lifeline' THE TIMES 'The most extraordinary parenting guide of our time' DAILY MAIL A breakout book...
All That Swagger (SIGNED)
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Edition: 6th reprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped, edges worn, in mylar. Binding: remains tight; faded and discoloured boards. light bumping...
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel
"Writing Chicago" uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of...
Only Here, Only Now: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025
'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters' RODDY DOYLE 'It's not every...
An Equal Stillness: Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers 2009
Jennet Mallow is born in Yorkshire in the 1920s but her interest in art and creativity alienates her from her family, her father who is a priest, her conventional sister...
The Book What I Wrote: Eric, Ernie and Me
With his recent theatrical success, THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE, Braben shows that the audience for the spirit of the incomparable Eric and Ernie is just as alive today as...
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience Of Modernity
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Very light foxing on block - does not extend internally. Foxing on block - does not extend internally....
All in the Family: Show that Changed Television, The
All in the Family creator Norman Lear takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sitcom on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The face of television was changed forever...
The Winter of Our Discontent
Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of...
Elizabeth Harrower
'At last I read her books, reminding myself to breathe, wondering if her characters could extricate themselves from her finely spun web of psychological torment. I seized my chance to...
The Cure for Modern Life
Though Matthew and Amelia were once in love and planning to raise a family together, they are now professional enemies. To Amelia, whose life has been dedicated to charity, Matthew's...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
_________________________ A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories which show that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is...
Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect: Can you solve the cleverest murder mystery of the year?
$12.00 AUD
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The Hate Race
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Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
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The Best Japanese Short Stories: Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More
Author: Lane Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)! Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer,
The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it...
Love Marriage: from the author of 2024 Women's Prize-winning
An outstanding debut novel of fractured family relationships in modern Sri Lanka, from the author of the Women's Prize-winning Brotherless Night 'Beautifully written' Financial Times 'Ganeshananthan is a superb writer'...
What Would Beauvoir Do?: How the Greatest Feminists Would Solve Your Everyday Problems
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Author: Tabi Jackson Gee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Get life advice and a crash course on women's rights from the great feminists of every generation. Have...
Jane Austen: A Penguin Life
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In her brilliant fictional biography, The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields created an astonishing portrait of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a modern woman struggling to understand her place in her own life....
Homer & Langley
$15.00 AUD
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The Letters of Ivor Punch: Winner Of The Edinburgh Book Festival First Book Award
Author: Colin MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 All islands have their secrets. This one has more than most. When Fingal McMillan rows out into the Atlantic...
Familiar Quotations: A Collection Of Passages, Phrases And Proverbs Traced To Their Sources In Ancient And Modern Literature
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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Some yellowing. Markings: No markings visible on title page. Binding condition: Binding intact with some wear, pages secure....
Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist
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In a work that re-investigates archival materials and deploys an innovative theoretical framework, Jean Mills explores the intellectual and political relationship between Virginia Woolf and the Cambridge classicist Jane Ellen...
The Writing School: A memoir
Author: Miranda France Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Both extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It's beautifully written...
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'...
Love Marriage: from the author of 2024 Women's Prize-winning
An outstanding debut novel of fractured family relationships in modern Sri Lanka, from the author of the Women's Prize-winning Brotherless Night 'Beautifully written' Financial Times 'Ganeshananthan is a superb writer'...
Araluen: a spell-binding family saga from the bestselling author of
MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST On a blistering hot day in 1850, George and Richard...
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist
'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year so far: minus 300 'I feel that this might...
Family Favourites: Fuss-Free and Tasty Recipe Ideas for the Modern Cook
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Author: Love Food Editors Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Create a tailor-made library of indispensable recipes with the Cook's Collection. Cook with on-trend ingredients and whip up delicious dishes,...
Other People's Children
A story of complicated families and a wartime secret that ripples down through the generations from a writer of exceptional talent. Tommaso is just about making it work: travelling abroad...
Breakdown: The humane Irish Bestseller about the dark side of modern
From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers comes a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation, and one woman's decision to leave everything behind. 'Thrillingly relatable' HARPER'S...