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Ancestry by Simon Mawer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the reality of the past and an exploration of that uncertain borderland which lies between fact and fiction. Using archive material Mawer has picked through the traces left behind by h ...Show more
Ancestry - A Novel by Simon Mawer
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... N ...Show more
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit ...Show more
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968, the year of the Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to ...Show more
Swimming to Ithaca by Simon Mawer
$26.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
On her deathbed, Dee Denham, at one time the toast of colonial Cyprus, tells her son Thomas that her illness is a punishment. Compelled by grief and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, Thomas finds himself searching for the meaning of her last words. He searches through faded photographs and love l ...Show more
The Fall by Simon Mawer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Falling in love. Falling from a mountaintop. Falling out of favor. Falling from grace. This mesmerizing novel captures the exhilaration of emotional freefall in its myriad guises. Against a shifting backdrop of Alpine peaks, a small Welsh village, and the bombed-out London of World War II, a man and two ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Marian Sutro Ser.
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluen ...Show more
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds ...Show more
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House beco ...Show more
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Marian Sutro Ser.
From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize-shortlisted The Glass Room and Trapeze An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalt ...Show more
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is now back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. De-briefed by the same shadowy branch of the secret service that sent her to Paris to extract a French atomic scientist, Marian is now plunged into the cold war. Simon Mawer's s ...Show more
Trapeze by Simon Mawer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A propulsive novel of World War II espionage by the author of "New York Times "best seller "The Glass Room." Barely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out--she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of ...Show more
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