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Alone of All Her Sex : The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
A story of West African politics, entwined with African legends, folk-tales and proverbs.
Ball the Wall - Nik Cohn in the Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action-and profit-by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. His courier disappears-probably with his wife-and a corrupt Fed want ...Show more
Exotic Pleasures by Peter Carey
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
Author of many novels and short stories, best-selling writer Lee Smith has received numerous awards for her works, including two O Henry Awards. Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births ...Show more
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
$10.00 AUD
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
Mark Brian, a young Anglican priest who does not have long to live, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in British Columbia. While sharing the hunting and fishing, the festivals and funerals and the joys and sorrows of a once proud tribe, Mark learns enough of life to prepare him for death.
Look at It This Way by JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
Love And War In The Apennines by Eric Newby
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
After the Italian Armistice in 1943, Eric Newby left the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year and evaded the advancing Germans by going to ground high in the mountains and forests south of the River Po. In strange isolation he was sheltered and protected for over three months by an informal ne ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India?s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight?s children? all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more
Mr. Personality - Profiles and Talk-Pieces by Mark Singer
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
A collection of the author's journalistic pieces from The New Yorker, including his profiles and Talk of the Town pieces. They consist of comic explorations of the madder ranges of American citizenship. Singer's first book, Funny Money, was published in 1985.
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.
'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel K ...Show more