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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...
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 Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories
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: Patricia Craig Format: Paperback...
Faces in the Crowd: Players and Writers
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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...
Writers: Photographs by Nancy Crampton
$15.00 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. A description of our secondhand...
Antaeus: Plays in One Act
A collection of contemporary one-act plays by 44 established writers: Koko Abe, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, Jane Bowles, Richard Ford, David Hare, Vaclav Havel, Gert Hoffman, Adrienne Kennedy, David Mamet,...
The Underground Man
One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective...
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 Galton Case
One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of...
The Goodbye Look
One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that...
The Lost Child
Longlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award From the headland, we look across to the lighthouse on Seal Island where Mr Hammett has to take the gas bottle to...
The Drowning Pool
One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a...
The Chill
One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex...
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...
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...
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...
French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries
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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...
Swanfall: The Times Children's Book of the Week*
'Swanfall manages to capture the kind of magic of a great winter walk. As Soon as you're finished, you'll want to pull on your wellies and stomp outside in search...