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Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink
26.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Guilt is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future. Written in Bernhard Schlink's eloquent but accessible style, it taps in to worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who bel ...Show more
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The life of one woman - Olga - from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany.A novel of love, passion and history from beloved modern master Bernhard Schlink. 'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York Times Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the tu ...Show more
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York TimesOlga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees h ...Show more
Self's Punishment (#1) by Bernhard Schlink
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
The bestselling detective novel from the author of The Reader.Sixty-eight years old; a smoker of Sweet Aftons, a dedicated drinker of Aviateur cocktails, and the owner of a charismatic cat named Turbo, Gerhard Self is an unconventional private detective. When Self is summoned by his long-time friend and ...Show more
Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Reader, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises. A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; ...Show more
Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; holiday lovers will struggle in the harsh reality of daily routine...As Schlink's characters ...Show more
The Gordian Knot by Bernhard Schlink
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A prize-winning Cold War spy novel from the author of international megaseller THE READER. Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far from booming and Georg struggles to ma ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before ...Show more
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgements on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old day ...Show more
The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA #1 International BestsellerA young lawyer became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and destructive relationship. An artist, his subject, and her husband became a triangle that drew the lawyer in deeper and deeper. Now, encountering the paint ...Show more
The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the girl in the painting, the girl on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an is ...Show more
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