Trent's Last Case AUD13.00
The first classic of the Golden Age of English Detective fiction, deliberately written to puncture the dread solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the ingenious plot and self-mocking hero ensure lasting popularity. It's got everything: a dead American, missing false teeth and a relieved widow. Read More...
The Waterworks AUD20.00
In a city where every form of crime and vice flourishes, corruption is king, fabulous wealth stands on the shoulders of unspeakable want, and there are no limits to larceny. It is New York in 1871, where the disinherited son of a monstrous millionaire sees his dead father alive - and sets off a train of mystery and revelation that takes the reader into the darkest heart of evil and avarice in a thriller that only E L Doctorow could have written. Read More...
This is a boxed set of three of her best, all illustrated through out by C. Walter Hodges. Read More...
Customs in Common AUD35.00
The remarkable sequel to E.P. Thompson's influential, landmark volume of social history. The Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working class institutions emerge from England. A panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. Read More...
Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here AUD11.00
Dead nudes weren't news in the 87th precinct. Neither were muggings, hippies, hookers or jewellery-stealing ghosts. So why does Detective Brown find himself looking for Snow White? Read More...
Downtown AUD13.00
The Big Bad Apple on Christmas Eve is no place for an orange grower from Florida. Not even Vietnam was this bad. Crazy killers, crazier bimbos, cops, actors and crack dealers are all after his blood. Read More...
A Secret History of the IRA AUD30.00
This is the sensational inside story of the IRA as it has never been told before. At the heart of the story lies one man: Gerry Adams, an early IRA leader in Belfast. This revelatory book will change for ever the way we see the IRA and its bloody thirty year conflict with Britain. Read More...
A Book of Learned Nonsense AUD20.00
Lear is best known for his nonsense poems, deceptively simple rhymes that together describe a surreal and uniquely engaging imaginative world, through one with a deep underlying sense of melancholy.. Read More...
Low City, High City AUD25.00
Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake. How the Shoguns' ancient capital became the greatest city in Japan. Read More...
Ruth AUD98.00
The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Read More...
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