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The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis. Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a n ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator); Harry Willets (Translator); Edward E. Ericson Jr. (Abridged by); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)
18.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time "It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of f ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 - An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."The greates ...Show more
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
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Category: Judaica | Series: P. S. Ser.
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, ...Show more
The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
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Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, ...Show more
The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
23.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: P. S. Ser.
The most eloquent translation of Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan WarThis is Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' triumph over Troy and arduous journey home: Odysseus survives a storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo
32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...Show more
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obssession by Irvin D. Yalom
45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal des ...Show more