Your Lover Just Called by John Updike
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$19.95 (49% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Joan and Richard Maple confess infidelities, join a Boston civil rights march, take a trip to their in-laws, to the beach, to Rome, and after 20 years attempt to explain to their four children why they have decided to separate.
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The Secret History for a new generation - a tale of toxic obsession, ambition and corrosive friendships with a mysterious pack of tarot cards at the heart of the story - and set to be one of the most captivating debuts of 2023. Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at ...Show more
The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection. For fans of The Guest Cat, Sweet Bean Paste and Before the Coffee Gets Cold Following a devas ...Show more
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows ...Show more
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a grave in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice the rate of normal humans. Mora ...Show more
The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
$145.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the biography of a nation during the first four decades of the twentieth century, one of the most crucial periods in Spain's long history.
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Written on the bodyis a secret code only visible in certain lights- the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't kn ...Show more
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The highly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas morning tour - and disappear. Through the twists of fat ...Show more
The Kills by Richard House
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. Shortlisted for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2014. Camp Liberty is a forgotten military base in Amrah province, Iraq, a place where the detritus of war is incinerated, burried, erased from memory. It is manned only by a small group of economic mercenaries. Whe ...Show more