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The Golden Apples
Welty's incisive, deeply evocative tales capture the sultry, close atmosphere of small-town life in the American Deep South First published in 1949, THE GOLDEN APPLES is an acutely observed, richly...
Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2919
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2919 A wide-ranging memoir and biography box — major literary lives of Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Archibald MacLeish; Naipaul's India: A Million Mutinies...
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. A "delightful" (Vanity Fair) collection from...
New Granta Book of the American Short Story
Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...
Faces in the Crowd: Players and Writers
$20.00 AUD
Primarily a jazz critic, Gary Giddins is also keenly interested in cinema and modern American literature, and this book brings together over thirty of his most perceptive pieces. There are...
The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR ' Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer 'A fascinating look at a...
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving
The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...
French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries
$15.00 AUD
During the 1970s, Harriet Welty Rochefort moved from Shenandoah, Iowa, to Paris, where she met and married her husband, Philippe. In this book, she offers her reflections on what it's...
The Happy Gut Guide: Know More, Live Well, Feel Great
Learn how to truly trust your gut. As well as digesting your food, your gut plays a vital role in your health and happiness. Not only does it contain over...
Self-Reliance: The Original 1841 Essay With Twelve New Essays
One of Fortune 's 'Best Books of 2021' When Ralph Waldo Emerson published his seminal essay on self-reliance in 1841, the United States was still reeling from the effects of...
Why Don't I Have Anything to Wear?: Spend Less. Shop Smarter.
PRE-ORDER THE MUST-HAVE GUIDE FROM TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM SENSATION, ANDREA CHEONG! Have you ever opened your wardrobe, filled with clothes, and felt you had nothing to wear? Have you ever...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of the Year. One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Ten Best History...
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer 'A masterpiece' Andrew...
The Eagle and the Wolf (Age of Attila, Book 1)
'This is the best book I've read this year, hands down ' Conn Iggulden As Hun hordes and Germanic tribes maraud through Imperial lands, two legendary men - Attila the...
What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires
Chloe is beautiful and fiercely bright, but her thirst for booze and attention is insatiable. Sara resents being tied down to anything, but part of her craves stability. Elliot is...
Ai Weiwei on Censorship: A Sunday Times Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller A thought-provoking work by a singular voice, this short, sharp essay invites us to critically reconsider power, ideology and the boundaries of free speech. Invisible, invasive...
Hammer Time: Me, West Ham, and a Passion for the Shirt
'pulls no punches' The Sun 'full of eventful tales from the past' Daily Mail 'punchy, earthy ... entertaining stories that capture football in an era long before sanitised PR and...
Goodbye Europe: The unique must-have collection
From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists say farewell in this unique collection. In these pages you'll find personal letters, reminiscences, poetry, art and...
When We Ruled: 'A history the world needs' Bettany Hughes
'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 'Please read it!' - Philippa Gregory, bestselling...
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western
$12.00 AUD
Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we...
European Identity: A Historical Reader
What is Europe? A continent? A political institution? A cultural community? Bringing together 101 key texts on the theme of European identity, this reader provides essential insights into the idea...
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap - 'A very important book' (Sandi
EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight for equal pay, and how men and employers can help them....
The Penguin Companion to European Union
The bestselling "Penguin Companion to European Union" explains the ideas, institutions, personalities and policies that have shaped politics at European level since the Second World War. Its interlocking A to...
The Game of Hearts: True Stories of Regency Romance
'Endlessly captivating ' - Tracy Borman ' Tantalising ' - Gill Hornby ' More scandal than Bridgerton 's Lady Whistledown ' - Helena Kelly The carriages have rolled back into...
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
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An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and...
Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to
By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U. S. as a hyperpower, to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented...