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James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...
Lines of My Life: Journal of a Year
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Point Of Departure: An Autobiography
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew journalists of the twentieth century bore witness to history with the moral clarity and narrative force of...
Isaac Campion
Three of the bestselling, most acclaimed fiction titles of the past decade, reissued with stylish and attractive new covers. Turned into a major feature film, Janni Howker's The Nature of...
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of...
Brideshead Revisited: Popular Penguins
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric,...
Constable: A Portrait
ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2023'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was...
The Piano
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Scoop: Popular Penguins
One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies,Scoopis a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast,...
Contest of Champions Vol. 2: Final Fight
Author: Al Ewing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 After the cataclysmic events of last volume - Battlerealm will never be the same! But Earth's ultimate superteam has discovered the...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney, Thomas Cromwell became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey. After Wolsey's fall,...
Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero, And Martyr
$20.00 AUD
Author: Evelyn WaughBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageEvelyn Waugh’s masterful biography of Edmund Campion offers a penetrating...
Australian Catholics
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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: Edmund Campion Format: Paperback...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation
The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to...
Gypsy Jem Mace: First Heavyweight Champion of the World
A few miles from New Orleans, at LaSalle's Landing - in what is now the city of Kenner - stands a life-size bronze statue of two men in combat. One...
The Times Speed: The History of Formula 1 World Championships
'This book expertly captures the extraordinary events and legendary drivers who made the sport what it is today. A must-read for any F1 fan.' - Zak Brown, CEO, McLaren Racing,...
Legends of the track: Australia's champion jockeys and trainers
In Legends of the Track: Australia's champion jockeys and trainers , best-selling author Alan Whiticker tells the stories of 25 modern-era horse racing greats. This book celebrates the careers of...
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's...
Winx: Biography of a Champion
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To Defeat the Few: The Luftwaffe's campaign to destroy RAF Fighter
This history, based on an exhaustive study of German records, explores The Battle of Britain through the eyes of the Luftwaffe. Over the past 80 years, histories of the Battle...
Game, Set And Glory: A History Of The Australian Tennis Championships
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling sports history, Game, Set And Glory: A History Of The Australian Tennis Championships, chronicles the evolution and triumphs...
Queen's Champion
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the treacherous courts and battlefields of medieval England, loyalty is the most dangerous currency of all — and Queen's...
Maurice Blackburn: Champion of the people
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How Fischer Won: World Chess Championship — 1972
$200.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased spine. In the summer of 1972, the world held its breath as Bobby...
How to be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
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The Fantastic Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien: Fully Annotated Edition
In the field of supernatural and fantastic literature, certain names come readily to mind - E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft - but the name of Fitz-James O'Brien has...
Jamie's Italy
Jamie's sixth book - a Number One International bestseller reissued with a stunning new cover design Ever since working at the River Cafe for Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, Jamie...
Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of
'BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE' STEPHEN FRY A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play...
Bubbly: A Collection of Champagne and Sparkling Cocktails
Bubbly is a collection of more than 60 effortlessly stunning cocktail recipes in a beautiful gold book featuring the most festive bottle behind the bar-champagne! Pop the bottle and celebrate...
Twist: The Irish Times top 5 bestseller from the winner of the
**The instant Irish Times top 5 bestseller** 'Urgent and utterly compelling' KEVIN BARRY ' Twist lingers long after you've put it down' GUARDIAN 'A Gatsby tale for the internet age...
Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the
From acclaimed historian John Ferling, a major, global reappraisal of the Revolutionary War on its 250th Anniversary. In April 1775, British troops marched to Lexington, where an armed group of...
First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time, revised edition
Opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our universe's history: when the first stars were born. Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universe's...
Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great
From the acclaimed author of The King's Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun. In the late autumn of...
The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration
'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite A spellbinding work of history that...
Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Thoroughly researched.' Sunday Times 'To be devoured.' Philip Mansel 'This book is a treat for fans of well-told history.' Washington Post History is...
Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Thoroughly researched.' Sunday Times 'To be devoured.' Philip Mansel 'This book is a treat for fans of well-told history.' Washington Post History is...
Spaced Out: Space poems chosen by Brian Moses and James Carter
Blast off into space and explore the galaxies with a constellation of illustrated poems about the sun, moon and stars, black holes and worm holes, asteroids and meteorites, and even...
A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole...
House of Earth and Blood: The first book in the SENSATIONAL Crescent
The first book in the #1 bestselling Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas, author of the Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working...