The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis De Bernieres
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Latin American Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: good
While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, with whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre ...Show more
The New Confessions by William Boyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good
The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ...... ...Show more
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
$510.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 'Uproariously funny' Observer _________________________ Overweight, oversexed and over there . . . Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the West African state of Kinjanja. For starte ...Show more
A Friend from England by Anita Brookner
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
When Rachel becomes involved in the lives of the Livingstones it is with an acute appreciation of their home - beautifully furnished and richly decorated. They have won an undisclosed amount of money on the football pools. But rather than enjoy their new-found wealth, seem sadly resigned to it. They do, ...Show more
The Wall of the Plague by André Brink
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins to enjoy more and more of the idyllic lifestyle. Travelling with Mandla, a fellow South African and Black ...Show more
On the Yankee Station by William Boyd
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. ...Show more
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young ambitious architect is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in c ...Show more
Praying Mantis by André Brink
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the Lon ...Show more
DESTINY OF NATHALIE X AND OTHER STORIES - SIGNED by William Boyd
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NAT TATE : AN AMERICAN ARTIST 1928-1960 by William Boyd
$115.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The upheavals of World War II reverberated in the peace that followed, and many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had thought. Like Sam Richardson, who was determined to break free of the constraints of his background and leave Cumbria for the promised land of Australia.