Strandloper Alan Garner AUD25.00

Based on the true story of William Buckley, a bricklayer, the novel begins in the rural Cheshire of the 1790s as William and Het are making ready for the annual festival known as Shick-Shack Day. William has been chosen as the village's Shick-Shack - an ancient fertility figure, face blackened with charcoal and bedecked with boughs of oak - and Het is to be his Teaser. Read More...


Losing Nelson Barry Unsworth AUD37.00

In the discreet basement of a large house in north London, the complicated manoeuvres of Nelson's battles are painstakingly re-enacted by his 'dark twin', his 'land shadow'. A faithful biography, too, is being written with the secretarial assistance of the sceptical Miss Lily, who cannot always share the conviction that Nelson's acts of violence were acts of pure heroism ... Read More...


Slow Boats to China Gavin Young AUD20.00

Enthralled from childhood by the sea, ships, ports, landfalls, storms and everything to do with sea travel, Gavin Young set off on a sea voyage that was to take him halfway round the world on small, local boats of every kind. His love of the sea was inspired by Conrad, and this vivid and moving account of his journey - summoning up lands, people, conversation and memories - brings that masterly novelist to mind. Read More...


'I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest was my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September that I met the Captain for the first time...' Read More...


The Jacaranda Tree H E Bates AUD15.00

"H E Bates sensitiveness to beauty and to character is astonishing; it is, I think, greater than the sensibility of any other living English writer; and because of it, his work always reminds me of the painting of Renoir... his best stories do not impress by their strength so much as by their fragility..." David Garnett Read More...


Whit Iain Banks AUD18.00

Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. An innocent in the ways of the world, an ingénue when it comes to pop and fashion, she does however rejoice in the exalted status of Elect of God of the Luskentyrian Sect, a small but committed religious cult based near Stirling. Read More...


A Song of Stone Iain Banks AUD25.00

The war is ending, perhaps ended. For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam its lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep. Read More...


We are in Oxford in the 1660s' a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College, is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses: .... Read More...


The Infinite Plan Isabel Allende AUD5.35

The story of Gregory Reeves, son of an itinerant preacher, endlessly journeying, dirt poor. Gregory longs to escape, and Vietnam provides the means, thence law school at Berkeley before being pitch-forked into pursuit of the American Dream. Read More...


Brief Lives John Aubrey AUD15.00

John Aubrey's Brief Lives, those racy portraits of the great figures of 17th century England, stand alongside Pepsy's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Richard Barber reproduces as closely as possible what Aubrey wrote, modernising the spelling and paraphrasing obsolete words, in a version that will allow many new readers to enjoy this vivid and eccentric masterpiece. Read More...


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