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The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins
When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded in hospital and carefully removes his bandages, he realises he is one of the few who can see; almost everyone else has been blinded by...
The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins
When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded in hospital and carefully removes his bandages, he realises he is one of the few who can see; almost everyone else has been blinded by...
The Chrysalids
"In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors". -M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation- Wyndham takes the...
The Day of the Triffids
When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can...
Wyndham: Midwich Cuckoos
Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the...
The Chrysalids
Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise...
Chocky
New to Penguin Modern Classics, to tie in with the release of the Steven Spielberg film, and with a new introduction by Brian Aldiss Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven,...
The Midwich Cuckoos
$450.00 AUD
Author: John WyndhamBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1957Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsIn a quaint English village, a mysterious event leaves all women of childbearing age...
The Day of the Triffids
When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can...
The World Of Goya
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels visible. A richly illustrated art historical biography, The World...
This Fragile Earth
Author: Susannah Wise Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 '[An] amazing futuristic novel . . . Do yourself a favour and a pick up a copy now. It's fantastic' Paul...
Wyndham Lewis The Novelist
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: none. Few figures in modernist literature are as electrifying and as persistently undervalued as Percy Wyndham Lewis —...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
$15.00 AUD
Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
Irish Rose
$15.00 AUD
Author: Patrick WyattBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union - BCE., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPatrick Wyatt's fantasy of the future is in the John Wyndham...
Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-45
$12.00 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: Ursula Wyndham Format: Hardback...
Life In His Hands
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...
Wyndham Lewis On Art: Collected Writings 1913-1956
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in the history of modernism provoked as much controversy, or possessed as much brilliance, as Wyndham Lewis — painter, polemicist,...
Love Lessons: A Wartime Diary
$50.00 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...
British Science Fiction Cinema
British Science Fiction Cinema is the first substantial study of a genre which, despite a sometimes troubled history, has produced some of the best British films, from the prewar classic...
The Black Cloud
Before the ash cloud, there was the Black Cloud ... A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant...
The Letters Of Jean Rhys
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few voices in twentieth-century literature are as...
The Best Science-Fiction Stories
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when the universe's most daring minds collide in a single volume? The Best Science-Fiction Stories is a masterfully curated anthology that gathers the...
Wyndham Lewis: Art and War
The book titled Wyndham Lewis: Art and War by the author Paul Edwards. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Shadows of Men
Wyndham and Banerjee are back in a stunning new instalment in this award-winning, Raj-era series. *Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month* **A 'Book of the Year' pick in The...
Ronsard
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact. A richly detailed biographical portrait, Ronsard chronicles the life...
A Time To Keep Silence
$400.00 AUD
Author: Patrick Leigh FermorBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1957Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsPatrick Leigh Fermor recounts his experiences in monasteries. He reflects on the profound sense of...
John Flynn: Apostle To The Inland (SIGNED)
$90.00 AUD
Author: W. Scott McpheatBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biographical work chronicles the life of John Flynn, a prominent figure...
The Ebony Tower
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the verdant seclusion of a Breton forest, a young English art critic arrives to interview Henry Breasley,...
John Soane
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of British architecture cast as long a shadow as Sir John Soane, and this volume from the celebrated Architectural...
Blind Ambition: The Real Story Behind Washington's Closed Doors
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew political memoirs have shaken Washington to its foundations quite like Blind Ambition, the searing firsthand account by...
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
$25.00 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...
Byron: A Symposium
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have inspired as much passion, controversy, and critical debate as George Gordon, Lord Byron — and Byron: A Symposium gathers...
Samuel Johnson
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...
Gough Whitlam: A Tribute 1916–2014
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history command the enduring reverence of Edward Gough Whitlam, and this handsome tribute volume stands as a testament to...
Butterfield 8
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet morally ambiguous world of 1930s New York, BUtterfield 8 chronicles the turbulent life of...
The Death Of A President: November, 1963
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the four days that shook the world — November 20–25, 1963 — America witnessed the assassination of...
Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict
The Great Wall of China - stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the Bohai Sea - remains an enduring symbol of Chinese might....
The Poetical Works Of George Macdonald: In Two Volumes
$120.00 AUD
Edition: fine-paper edition.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards with minor marks and flecks. Binding slightly shaky. Markings:...
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2022
*Large-format hardback edition* The 159th edition of the most famous sports book in the world - published every year since 1864 - contains some of the finest sports writing of...
Rowlandson: Watercolours And Drawings
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists captured the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian England with the raw vitality and comic genius of...
Hedgerow
Hedgerows, moors, meadows and woods - these hold a veritable feast for the forager. In this hugely informative and witty handbook, John Wright reveals how to spot the free and...