The Tiger of Desire AUD12.00
In 1973, Iain Forward was framed for murder. Finally released from prison, he's obsessed with the desire to find out who framed him, and why. His loyal wife Alison begs him to put the nightmare behind him so they can build a future together. But Iain can think only of the past - of the mysterious events in Singapore that led to his arrest. Read More...
Gulliver's Travels AUD30.00
A novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Read More...
The Athenian Murders AUD14.00
When the body of a young man is discovered on the slopes of Mount Lycabettus, it is initially assumed that a pack of wolves is responsible for his death. But tramachus, an aspiring student at Plato's academy, has been murdered and Heracles, known as the 'Deciphererof Enigmas', is called into help unravel the truth. Read More...
Around the World in Eighty Days AUD25.00
A classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. Read More...
Around the World in Eighty Days AUD25.00
A classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. Read More...
Out of Africa AUD45.00
The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen’s life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then translated it into Danish. Read More...
Shakespeare's Life and World AUD50.00
Shakespeare lived in many worlds, so many that no single book can hope to encompass them all. But in particular, he inhabited two worlds of words, between which there yawns an apparently unbridgeable gap. Read More...
Memory Lane AUD12.00
Once again, Laurence Gough brilliantly captures the sights and sounds of Vancouver, as police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker investigate the murder of a city police officer, who had a very arcane sex life. But is that the key to his death? Read More...
The Iron Hand of Mars AUD85.00
Falco's back in trouble as usual. With Titus Caesar in pursuit of his patrician girlfriend Helena, Marcus Didius Falco, the louche Roman sleuth, is sent out of the way on an undercover mission to Roman Germany. Read More...
Venus in Copper AUD70.00
Working for the Palace was not all perks. Poor pay. Jealous colleagues. And now a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial Rome's most hard-done-by investigator, sharing a cell with a large rat ... Read More...
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