Who Ate up All the Shinga? - An Autobiographical Novel by Wan-suh Park; Young-nan Yu (Translator); Stephen Epstein (Translator)
$32.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, d ...Show more
The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
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Category: General
'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.' The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, t ...Show more
Nineveh by Henrietta Rose-Innes
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Category: General
Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in 'the unlovely and unloved'. Yet in contrast to her father, she is not in the business of pest extermination, but pest relocation. Katya's unconventional approach brings her to the attention of a property developer whose luxury estate on the fringes of C ...Show more
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
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Category: General
A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary, and 10 million copies sold worldwide, of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel 'A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy' Ian McEwan It was 7 minutes after midnight ...Show more
Rainsongs by Sue Hubbard
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Category: General
A poignant story of transformation, conjuring the rugged beauty of County Kerry's coastline, by an award-winning writer. Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a virtually abandoned village on the west coast of Ireland for reasons even she is uncertain of. Looking out from her ...Show more
Outlander: The gripping historical romance from the best-selling adventure series (Outlander 1) by Diana Gabaldon
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Category: General | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: good
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. As seen on TV. Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century - and a lover in another. In 1946, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks throu ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
The Far Pavilions by M M Kaye
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"The Far Pavilions" is the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between E ...Show more
Olympia: The Birth of the Games by John Martino
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Category: General
AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS In ancient Greece and across the Mediterranean, kingdoms strive for dominance. The great powers of Carthage and Egypt look on with avarice as the might of the Greeks is spent warring between themselves, oblivious to external dangers. Year in and year out, the people suffer at the hand ...Show more