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Cannibals and Missionaries by Mary McCarthy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A suspenseful and sometimes horrifying novel of manners, whose plot and odd mix of characters combine to produce an unorthodox thriller about the hijacking of a Middle East-bound jetliner over France in early 1975. "Psychologically astute, ironic and ultimately heartbreaking"(Publishers Weekly).
Lonely Planet East Africa by Anthony Ham, Ray Bartlett, Stuart Butler, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Shawn Duthie, David Else, Mary Fitzpatrick, Anna Kaminski, Tom Masters, Carolyn McCarthy, Helena Smith
$40.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Travel Guide Ser.
Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's East Africa�is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Feel the pounding of hooves as wildebeest stampede across the plains of the Serengeti; get c ...Show more
The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of ...Show more
The Group by Mary McCarthy
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant' COSMOPOLITAN'A brilliant novel: honest, engaging and sharp as a tack' SARAH WATERS'Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining' SUNDAY TIMESThis groundbreaking novel celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023. One of the first novels to frankly depi ...Show more
The Group by Mary McCarthy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
THE GROUP follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan. THE GROUP can be seen as the original SEX AND THE CITY. It is the first novel to frankly portray women's real lives, exploring subjects such as sex, contr ...Show more
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
$26.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A journey through the glorious Italian city's scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Venice Observed and The Group.Mary McCarthy's classic celebrates the Italian city often looked upon as the provincial sister to the better-dressed, more "feminine" Venice.To McCarth ...Show more
Venice Observed by Mary McCarthy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Art and Places, Ser.
A penetrating work of reportage on Venice. “Searching observations and astonishing comprehension of the Venetian taste and character” (New York Herald Tribune).
War and the Iliad by Simone Weil; Rachel Bespaloff; Hermann Broch; Christopher Benfey (Introduction by); Mary McCarthy (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired an ...Show more
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