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The World of Yesterday
$75.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
Chess: A Novel
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania,...
Beware of Pity
The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. 'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' - The Guardian 'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of...
The Last Miracle: Jewish Stories
This collection from one of the great writers of Europe's Jewish diaspora shows the heat of individual passions blazing out against the levelling forces of history. In stories that move...
The Post Office Girl: Stefan Zweig's Grand Hotel Novel
A young Austrian woman, Christine, toils away in a provincial post office when, out of the blue, a telegram arrives inviting her to join an American aunt she's never known...
The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig, Inspirations for The Grand Budapest Hotel
'I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought...
Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: David Zweig Format: Hardback...
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but...
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but...
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. There...
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to...
War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution
"Robust and focused" - The Wall Street Journal "History at its insightful and mesmerizing best" - Nathaniel Philbrick Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how...
Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
Sex and art, we're told, are sacred, two spheres that ought to be kept separate from the ravages of the marketplace. Yet both prop up two incredibly lucrative industries, built...
Engaging Erik Olin Wright: Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias
Erik Olin Wright was one of the most brilliant and world renowned social scientists of our era. He left us in 2019 with an unfinished project - the articulation of...
Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Find your own way to inner peace with
'A timely and moving pilgrimage through Japan's spiritual traditions' RUTH OZEKI, Women's Prize-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'A fascinating dive through hidden layers of the Japanese worldview' KATHERINE MAY, author...
The Last Truths We Told: 'Seriously good' Sarah Vaughan
They predicted Ivo would become a tycoon They predicted Ayda would go on to become a hotshot lawyer They didn't predict that Lily would be dead Twenty years ago, nine...