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Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more
Shelter in Place by David Leavitt
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet." -Rachel Cusk "A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel about all the bewildering ways we seek solace from the people and things that surround us." - Jenny Offill David Leavitt returns with his signature "coolly ele ...Show more
Shelter in Place by David Leavitt
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet." -Rachel Cusk"Wickedly funny and emotionally expansive." - Jenny Offill It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Richly imagined [and] impressive" ("New York Times Book Review"), this critically acclaimed and emotionally charged novel about the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown--and unschooled--mathematical genius is historical fiction at its best: ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the ...Show more
The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend most Sundays apart; while Rose buries herself in crosswords and newspapers, Owen visits gay porn theaters. But when they discover they may lose their apart ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bl ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Great Discoveries Ser.
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work w ...Show more
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe - a city filled with spies, crowned heads and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the S. S. Manhattan, two couples meet: P ...Show more
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