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African Dawn

Tony Park · 2012

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Pan Macmillan Australia 2012 Paperback 511 ' African Dawn by Tony Park, the author of Red Earth, is a full-throttle international thriller that will engross fans of Clive Cussler. It's darkest before the dawn. Three families - the Bryants, the Quilter-Phippses and the Ngwenyas...

Duveen

S.N. Behrman · 1986

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Deutsch 1986 Paperback 210 Good

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1966

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Oxford University Press 1966 Hardback 190 Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. DJ; Price clipped; Large; Heavy. DJ worn especially at eges; foxing to inside cover. Good

The Complete Stalky And Co. (Oxford World's Classics)

Rudyard Kipling · 2009

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Oxford University Press 2009 Paperback 368 First published in 1899, Stalky and Co. is a collection of school stories based on Kipling's own experiences at the United Services College. Kipling himself appears as the central character called Beetle and through him shows how scho...

Eavesdropping On Jane Austen's England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago

Lesley Adkins and Roy A. Adkins · 2014

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Abacus 2014 Paperback 422 BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY: C 1700 TO C 1900. Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, lived from 1775 to 1817. Her fiction focuses on the gentry and aristocracy, and her heroines are young women looking for love. Yet the comf...

The Odour Of Sanctity

Amy Brown · 2013

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Te Herenga Waka University Press 2013 Paperback 240 Revisiting historical events and using them as a starting point for an exploration of love and humanity, acclaimed young poet Amy Brown tells the astonishing stories of six candidates for sainthood in this new collection. Fro...

Turkey A Short History

Norman Stone · 2014

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Thames & Hudson 2014 Paperback 192 In Turkey: A Short History the celebrated historian Norman Stone deftly conducts the reader through the fascinating and complex story of Turkey’s past, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the modern republic...

After The Bombing

Clare Morrall · 2014

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Sceptre 2014 Hardback 361 On the night of May 3rd, 1942, fifteen-year-old Alma Braithwaite and her fellow boarders at Goldwyn's school huddle in an air-raid shelter as bombs rain down on Exeter in one of the Baedeker raids. By the time the girls emerge, half the school is in r...

The Lockhart: Plot Love, Betrayal, Assassination And Counter-Revolution In Lenin's Russia

Jonathan Schneer · 2020

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,954)

Oxford University Press 2020 Hardback 340 During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-...

Tuscan Rose

Belinda Alexandra · 2010

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

HarperCollins Publishers Australia 2010 Paperback 564 A mysterious stranger known as 'The Wolf' leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the only clue to the child's identity... Rosa's only family is the nuns who have rai...

The Fountain In The Forest

Tony White · 2018

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Faber & Faber 2018 Paperback 310 When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. Who is this anonymous corpse, and why has he been ritually mutilated? But as Rex explores the crime scene further, the myste...

The Jade Lily

Kirsty Manning · 2018

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Allen & Unwin 2018 Paperback 456 In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm, when her grandfather is dying. With only weeks left together, her grandparents begin to reveal the family mysteries they ...

The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett · 2008

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Faber & Faber 2008 Paperback 121 'Oh Norman,' said the Queen, 'the prime minister doesn't seem to have read any Hardy. Perhaps you could find him one of our old paperbacks on his way out. ' Had the dogs not taken exception to the strange van parked in the royal grounds, the Qu...

The Age Of Exodus (A Duncan Forrester Mystery)

Gavin Scott · 2018

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Titan Books Limited 2018 Paperback 399 "It's 1947, and Duncan Forrester is called upon to investigate the bizarre killing in the British Museum of a Foreign Office official who had consulted him about an ancient Sumerian seal. Then terrorists target the Foreign Secretary Ernes...

The Virtue Of Selfishness: A New Concept Of Egoism

Nathaniel Branden and Ayn Rand

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Signet Paperback 151 The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word "selfishness" is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual package-deal, which is responsible more than any other single factor, for the moral development of man. Good

The Pact

Jodi Picoult · 2014

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Allen & Unwin 2014 Paperback 456 For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty - they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents an...

Psychological Commentaries On the Teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff And P.D. Ouspensky - Volume 1

Maurice Nicoll · 1964

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Vincent Stuart 1964 Hardback 371 No DJ; Heavy. Blue boards, rubbed; spine sunned. Good

The Rosie Project

Graeme Simsion · 2016

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

The Text Publishing Company 2016 Paperback 329 'Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn’t know who to yet. But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a s...

Active Hope : How To Face The Mess We're In Without Going Crazy

Chris Johnstone and Joanna Macy · 2012

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

New World Library 2012 Paperback 272 The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengt...

Steps To Happiness: Travelling From Depression And Addiction To The Buddhist Path

Taranatha · 2006

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Windhorse Publications 2006 Paperback 182 Taranatha simply and quite movingly tells of his struggle through depression, alcoholism, over-identification with work as a general practitioner, a sense of worthlessness-to then find and embrace Buddhism. His is an 'everyman' tale of...