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A Descant for Gossips was Thea Astley's second novel, released in 1960 in England and Australia. In 1983 it was successfully adapted for television by the ABC. In this classic...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Set against the lush yet volatile backdrop of a fictional South Pacific island, Beachmasters...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the cloistered world of a small Queensland town, where conformity is currency and difference is punished with devastating precision, Thea Astley's A Descant...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA remote island off the Queensland coast becomes the stage for a haunting moral reckoning in Thea Astley's The Multiple Effects of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom one of Australia's most celebrated and uncompromising literary voices comes Vanishing Points, a collection of stories that tears back the comfortable...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the sun-scorched Queensland outback of the 1890s, a town reunion becomes a reckoning when a group of settlers are...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread. What does it take to forge a literary identity in a land that has...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the steamy, storm-laden tropics of north Queensland, It's Raining in Mango chronicles five generations of the Luce family, whose story is inseparable from...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. Set against the sweltering backdrop of a small Pacific island in the 1960s,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: unclipped dj with small tears. Name penned on fep, small ink tick on verso of half-title...

Wresting his family from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. They confront...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched landscape of rural Queensland, Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River chronicles the restless inner journey of Belle, a woman consumed by an...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingThe Slow Natives is a searing portrait of suburban Australian life, chronicling the quiet disintegration of the Leverson family —...

'This is a masterful novel...readers who loved Goodwood will find even more to love here.' Books + Publishing on Cedar Valley 'So much truth, so much aching and pain by...

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Who is Geronimo Stilton?That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books...

The third novel in the Ashmore Castle series, perfect for fans of DOWNTON ABBEY, from the author of the hugely successful MORLAND DYNASTY novels Behind the doors of the magnificent...

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary,...

Cheat? ME? Never!!! Well, except that one time... Who says you should always tell the truth? With this handy informational guidebook you can con your way through life -- from...

Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: slight lean to book with minor stains on boards.Long before the...

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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of one of the funny, heartbreaking, iconic coming-of-age novel. 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the...

Author: Natasha Farrant (Literary scout) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Like many girls, Alice Mistlethwaite idolises her father, Byron. He is a hero: brave, kind and impossibly funny. It's...

'Absorbing' Sunday Times , Historical Fiction Picks 'I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice' Mary Chamberlain 'A mesmerising combination of gothic horror and...

Author: Paul Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The definitive no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitarist It is an unequivocal fact that in terms of...

'Absorbing' Sunday Times , Historical Fiction Picks 'I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice' Mary Chamberlain 'A mesmerising combination of gothic horror and...

'An absorbing work of fiction' Sunday Times'I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice. ..nothing short of brilliant' Mary ChamberlainErzsebet Bathory, whose infamous place...

The first book in a compelling political fantasy duology, for fans of The Priory of the Orange Tree and the Farseer trilogy. Two centuries ago, the kingdom of Honoria's goddesses...

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Author: Dennis WheatleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson & Co Ltd, London, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Light foxing on book...