Temporary Kings (A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 11) by Anthony Powell
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Category: Literature
A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Temporary Kings follows Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpo ...Show more
Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
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Category: Literature
More than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the quaint Irish town of Ballinacroagh. Opening the beguiling Babylon Cafe, they charmed the locals with their warm hearts and delectable Persian cuisine, bringing a saffron-scented spice ...Show more
The Best Australian Poems 2012 by John Tranter (Editor)
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Category: Literature
'I was struck ... by just how many poems depended on the ancient devices of the storyteller ... Many have a lyrical or meditative feel, but most have a story to tell, captured in a brief glimpse of the meaning of life, or a dramatic climax.' -John Tranter In this impressive anthology John Tranter weave ...Show more
Dissection by HALLORAN Jacinta
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Category: Literature
Dr Anna McBride has been sued for medical negligence - a case of delayed diagnosis necessitating the amputation of a young man's leg. As the date for mediation draws closer, Anna's world begins to fray at the edges. Her daily work as a doctor, once routine, becomes increasingly difficult as she scrutini ...Show more
The Photographer's Wife by Suzanne Joinson
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Category: Literature
Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious - and wildly eccentric - plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the 'little witness', eavesdrops underneath the ...Show more
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Marking the return of Daniel Handler to adult fiction, Adverbs tackles life
Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett
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Category: Literature
Where magnificence and squalor co-exist, there will always be envy, rage, cruelty, paranoia and violence... St Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàunder its surface of fro ...Show more
Kehua by Fay Weldon
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Category: Literature
Rediscover the joy of Fay a tale of murder, sex, redemption, remorse and ghosts from the 'mistress of warped suburbia.'A kehua is a Maori ghost - the wandering dead searching for their ancestral home. Without the proper rituals to send them on their way, kehua are forced to remain on Earth to haunt thei ...Show more
Light Shining in the Forest by Paul Torday
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Category: Literature
Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary cheque has even hit his bank account, new priorities are set for the government department for which he works. The Children's czar ne ...Show more
Appointment In Samarra by John O'HARA
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Category: Literature
"Appointment in Samarra" is a fast-paced, blackly comic depiction of the rapid decline and fall of Julian English. English is part of the social elite of his 1930s American hometown but from the moment he impetuously throws a cocktail in the face of one of his powerful business associates his life begin ...Show more
Thrown under the Omnibus - A Reader by P. J. O'Rourke
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Category: Literature
An essential collection of career-spanning writings by the political satirist and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Parliament of Whores. From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone's International Affairs editor in the 1980s and 1990s, and his b ...Show more