Dunster by John Mortimer
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Highly acclaimed novelist John Mortimer presents a novel of friends and enemies--for Philip Progmire, those two roles just happen to be filled by the same person.Dick Dunster and Philip Progmire have been friends since their days at school. They have also been adversaries. Progmire's thespian longings, ...Show more
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Facto ...Show more
Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: General Adult
Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, ...Show more
The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
A young woman's romantic fantasies collide with the realities of adult life in a new novel from the bestselling author of "Prep". In the summer of 1991, Hannah Gavener is fourteen. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Then Jerome, Howard's oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps. Increasingly, the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely regis ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daugh ...Show more
Exit A: A Novel by Anthony Swofford
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Anthony Swofford's memoir of serving as a US marine in the Gulf War was an international sensation, made into an acclaimed film by director Sam Mendes. A meditation on manhood and masculinity, Jarhead rapidly established itself as a classic piece of war literature. Suffused with the same intensity ...Show more
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
This novel, told from the viewpoints of four Chinese mothers and their four American-Chinese daughters, examines the nature of the mother-daughter relationship, and the problems of cultural identity the characters face.
Actress by Anne Enright
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
'Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller' The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told b ...Show more
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find ...Show more