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The Shark Net
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t...
The Emigrants
At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sen...
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Lady of Pleasure
Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdy-house the naive young woman begins her sexual initiation and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love....
Dictator (#3 Cicero Trilogy)
"Confirms Harris' undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller". (Daily Mail). There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Cicero's comeback requires wit, skill an...
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's...
Couch Fiction - A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy
Philippa Perry; Flo Perry (Illustrator)
Ever wanted to know what really happens in a therapist's consultation room? Bestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read) turns her keen insights to the power of therapy. This compelling study of psychotherapy in the form of a graphic novel vividly explores a year's therapy...
The Car Book: The Definitive Visual History
A new edition of the definitive visual history of the automobile, profiling over 2,000 models, from the earliest "horseless carriage" to the modern supercar. A lavishly illustrated history of the automobile - the marques, the machines, and the magic. From the first motor cars to today's supercars and en...
Against All Odds Young Readers' Edition
The incredible true story of the Tham Laung Thai cave rescue of a boys' soccer team trapped for days with no supplies and decreasing oxygen levels. From joint Australians of the Year Richard Harris and Craig Challen. Now in a special edition for young readers.A young readers' edition of the incredible t...
Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Simon JamesIn the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their p...
How We Live Is How We Die
Discover newfound freedom in life's ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Ch dr n, beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart_x200B_. New in paperback! x200Bx200B As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment-the end of ...
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