Last Train from Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey
$15.00 AUD
$22.99 (34% off)
Category: Second Hand
From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. "Last Train from Liguria" takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to the heat and bustle of the pre-war Italian Riviera. This is a must-read ...Show more
Tracker by Alexis Wright
$25.00 AUD
$39.95 (37% off)
Category: Second Hand | Series: STELLA WINNER 2018
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winni ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
$10.00 AUD
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Category: Second Hand | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
Presents the portrait of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself.
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
$25.00 AUD
$45.00 (44% off)
Category: Second Hand | Reading Level: good-very good
Reviewed by Pascale, one of our longstanding casual staff members and a creative writing major. Murakami’s new novel Killing Commendatore is the Kyoto-born author at his whimsical best. Compelling and enigmatic, it follows a Japanese portrait painter and the unusual happenings that unfold when he moves ...Show more
The Imitator by Rebecca Starford
$10.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand
A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events. 'The Imitator gripped me to the end: I devoured it … What a rare treat to find a novel that offers both white-knuckled suspense and evocative, beautiful prose. I loved it.' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People 'We ...Show more
School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton (Introduction by); School of Life Staff
$29.99 AUD
$45.00 (33% off)
Category: Second Hand
Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduced and edited by the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love 'Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex subjects and write about them with thoughtful and ...Show more
The Vanishing Velázquez - A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming
$25.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" (The Economist), the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Vel zquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller det ...Show more
Rockonomics - A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life by Alan B. Krueger
$20.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand
Alan Krueger, a former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from superstar artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain key principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives. The music industry is a leadin ...Show more