In the Month of the Midnight Sun by Cecilia Ekbäck
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
An orphaned boy brought up to serve the state as a man. A rich young woman incapable of living by the conventions of society. Neither is prepared for the journey into the heat, mystery, violence and disorienting perpetual daylight of the far North. Stockholm 1856. Magnus is a geologist. When the Ministe ...Show more
Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges Investigation (#9) by Martin Walker
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Bruno, Chief of Police / The Dordogne Mysteries / A Mystery of the French Countryside
The Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic was called the most beautiful car of all time. Only four of them were ever built. A California museum paid $37 million for one; Ralph Lauren bought another; a third was smashed by a train at a level crossing. The fourth disappeared in France during World War 2. It was the ca ...Show more
The Good Guy by Susan Beale
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A deeply compelling novel set in 1960s suburban America for fans of The Engagements and Tigers in Red Weather. Ted, a car-tyre salesman in 1960s suburban New England, is a dreamer who craves admiration. His wife, Abigail, longs for a life of the mind. Single-girl Penny just wants to be loved. When a cha ...Show more
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. And he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, RateYourLodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels and, horrors, bed and breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the a ...Show more
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Muller
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fu ...Show more
Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada
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Category: No Category | Series: Fallada Collection | Reading Level: General Adult
Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler's war. Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and 'moderate pessimist', lives in constant fear. By night, he i ...Show more
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
34.99 AUD
Category: History
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secon ...Show more
Quiet Power (Strength of Introverts) by Susan Cain
29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
The highly anticipated follow-up to the sensational bestseller Quiet - empowering introverted children, teens and young adults Susan Cain sparked a worldwide conversation with Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking. She inspired millions of people, and permanently changed the ...Show more
The Philip Johnson Glass House - An Architect in the Garden by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger; Charles A. Birnbaum (Foreword by); Peter Aaron (Photographer)
105.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
The first authoritative book on the history of the Glass House property--Philip Johnson's fifty-year project of iconic modernist design, encompassing the remarkable buildings, landscape, and follies. From its completion in 1949 to the present day, Philip Johnson's Glass House has drawn cognoscenti and t ...Show more
My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of a ...Show more
Illustration Now! Portraits by Julius Wiedemann
49.99 AUD
Category: No Category
The field of illustration has flourished over the last decade, with professionals working both by computer and by hand. In illustration, the single most challenging and captivating subject has been the portrait, frequently used in editorials, advertising, products, and most recently, being the subject o ...Show more
Our Young Man by Edmund White
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships' New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Is ...Show more