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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: P.S.
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through t ...Show more
Pain, Parties, Work - Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: P. S. Ser.
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar. In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issu ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
Henri Charriere, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$25.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
Pigs Have Wings by WODEHOUSE P G
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler, and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the ...Show more
Pop Salvation by Lance Reynald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Caleb Watson is not like the other children at his Washington, D.C., private school. Having skipped a grade--and being younger and smaller than the rest of the boys--he finds that his Southern accent and sensitive, reserved nature set him even further apart. Caleb simply does not belong. But on a fiel ...Show more
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A "New York Times" Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and gr ...Show more
Run by Ann Patchett
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Set over a period of 24 hours, "Run" shows how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include the most unlikely of people, in this novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths people will go to protect their children.
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing. Bent on dominance, rival factions are initiating the down-and-out of L.A. into their ranks. Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kindhearted, lovesick dogcatcher, and the object of his affection: a female werewo ...Show more
Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Another laugh-aloud story of Blandings Castle, from one of the greatest humorists ever, P.G. Wodehouse. Read with masterly wit and style by highly-acclaimed British actor Martin Jarvis.Clarence, the amiable dotty ninth Earl of Emsworth, dotes on his prize-winning pig, Empress of Blandings. His old roué ...Show more
Tell My Horse Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
$32.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: P. S. Ser.
Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica—where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s—Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo. An invaluable resource and remarkable gu ...Show more
Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Satre by Hazel Rowley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are one of the world's legendary couples. Their committed but notoriously open union generated no end of controversy in their day. Biographer Hazel Rowley offers the first dual portrait of these two colos ...Show more