The Tournament: Text Classics by John Clarke
$12.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco ...Show more
Where Three Roads Meet - The Myth of Oedipus by Salley Vickers
$22.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Text Myth Ser.
At the end of his life, an old man waits in his office for a stranger to arrive. Over the next few weeks, Teiresias will visit again, making his way across Hampstead Heath to relate the story of his life. First published 2007.
Man in the Yellow Doublet : The Adventures of Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Adventures of Captain Alatriste Ser.
Captain Alatriste's affair with the beautiful actress Maria de Castro is rankling not only his long-term mistress but also the King of Spain. With loyal companion Inigo distracted by the affections of Angelica, Alatriste becomes embroiled in a series of tussles outside his lover's house. Ambushed by arc ...Show more
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #3
The bestselling author of The Shadow of the Windtakes us back to the shadowy streets of Barcelona and the world of the Sempere and Sons bookshop. Continuing the story of The Shadow of the Windand The Angel's Game, The Prisoner of Heavenleads us to the enigma at the heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Boo ...Show more
King's Curse: Cousins' War 6 by Philippa Gregory
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Cousins' War Ser.
A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe final novel in the Cousins' War seriesRegarded as yet another threat to the volatile King Henry VII's claim to the throne, Margaret is buried in marriage to a steady and kind Tudor supporter -- Sir Richard Pole, governor of Wales. But her quiet life is changed f ...Show more
A World of Other People - Eliot Quartet series #2 by Steven Carroll
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society's thin-li ...Show more
The Lost Life (Eliot Quartet) by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
England, 1934. Two young lovers have trespassed into a rose garden of an abandoned house in the English countryside. They witness the poet T.S. (Tom) Eliot and his friend Emily Hale, enter the garden and bury a small tin together. Tom is married, and his wife has no intention of letting him go. What is ...Show more
Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
From one of our finest writers - winner of the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award - comes a wistful and emotional story that imagines a happier ending for the mercurial and complicated Vivienne Haigh-Wood, first wife of the great poet, TS Eliot. Londo ...Show more
A World of Other People by Steven Carroll
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
Joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award (with Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan), A World of Other People is a life-affirming evocation of love in war time, when every decision, and every day, matters. Set in 1941 during the Blitz, Steven Carroll's cinematic new novel traces the ...Show more
A New England Affair (#3 Eliot Quartet series) by Steven Carroll
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
"The latest, immensely moving novel of lost love and missed moments from Steven Carroll, one of Australia's greatest writers, multi-award winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award 'Why do some nights feel as though they were always waiting ...Show more
Dear Mrs Bird (#1 The Emmy Lake Chronicles) by A J Pearce
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Emmy Lake Chronicles Ser.
This charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about a young woman who longs to be a war correspondent and inadvertantly becomes a secret advice columnist is "a jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People)--for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girl ...Show more
The Unknown Kerouac - Rare, Unpublished, and Newly Translated Writings by Jack Kerouac; Todd Tietchen (Editor); Jean-Christophe Cloutier (Translator)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Library of America Ser.
In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success--a journey with deep r ...Show more