Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of bot ...Show more
The Beijing Conspiracy by Adrian D'Hage
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Dr Kalid Kadeer, a brilliant Muslim microbiologist, sends a warning to the White House, but the President ignores it. CIA agent Curtis O'Connor knows Kadeer isn't bluffing. Together with Australian scientist Kate Braithwaite, O'Connor works to unravel the riddles of Kadeer's warning. They uncover a thre ...Show more
The Omega Scroll by Adrian d'Hage
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
When the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in a desert cave, they threw new light on the scriptures of the Christian Church. But in this novel, one scroll, the Omega Scroll, mysteriously disappears and the knowledge it contains is lost to humankind. Legend has it that those who come into contact with the scro ...Show more
10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year by Robert Drewe, Anita Heiss, Toni Jordan, Tom Keneally, Kathy Lette, Monica Mcinerney, William McInnes, Melina Marchetta, Jack Marx, and Peter Temple
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
This diverse collection of tales by ten of our best writers captures contemporary Australian life in all its variety. Funny, poignant, perceptive, these unputdownable stories will get everyone reading! Exclusive to Books Alive!
Houdini Unbound: Mystery, Music and Flying Machines by Alan Attwood
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It is 1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini is in Australia for the first time. The most celebrated escape artist in the world has sold-out seasons in both Melbourne and Sydney.Houdini has a new obsession- aviation. He has brought with him from Europe his own Voisin biplane, being put together a ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
The Collected Regrets of Clover (PB) by Mikki Brammer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Collected Regrets of Clover is the burst of hopefulness we need right now. A sparkling debut novel from Australian Mikki Brammer, which reminds us all to live our best life with fewer regrets. 'Warm, profound, and expertly told . . . This is one of those special books that will leave a handprint on ...Show more
The War Nurses by Anthea Hodgson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A moving and inspiring WWII novel of friendship and courage, based on the true events of the Bangka Island Massacre, by the bestselling author of The Drifter. In 1941, country girls Minnie Hodgson and Margot McNee set sail from Perth, Australia for Singapore in search of adventure, full of excitement an ...Show more
The Swampers : A Romance of the Westralian Goldfields by Hume Nisbet
$90.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE