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Beloved by Toni Morrison
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage War
WWI Centenary EditionWith a new introduction from the authorA novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage International
It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks carcinogens. While Harry is resuscitated he will never be the same, for having seen his own misery, he can no lon ...Show more
Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to n ...Show more
Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri (University of East Anglia)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Vintage Departures
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Calm by Tim Parks
$8.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Minis | Series: Vintage Minis
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tac ...Show more
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
$23.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposit ...Show more
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more