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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of State of Wonder and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful ...Show more
Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: P. S. Ser.
Following in the tradition of James Gleick' Chaos, Matt Ridly vividly explores the most profound scientific discovery of the century--the mapping of the human genome. But what does that mean? In witty, clear language, Ridley answers this question for your students. Genome helps them understand what the ...Show more
Good Book : The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of The Bible by David Plotz
$22.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: P. S. Ser.
Good Book is a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud tour through a book most people have never read: the Bible. Like many Jews and Christians, David Plotz had always assumed he knew what was in the Bible. He read parts of it as a child in Hebrew school, and as a teenager while attending a Christian high schoo ...Show more
Green Girl: A Novel by Kate Zambreno
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
$29.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: P. S. Ser.
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." B ...Show more
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates; John Ranard (Photographer)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: P. S. Ser.
A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
$26.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: P. S. Ser.
This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says the author. In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you ...Show more
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis. Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a n ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator); Harry Willets (Translator); Edward E. Ericson Jr. (Abridged by); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time "It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of f ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 - An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Harry Willets (Translator); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."The greatest and most powerful single ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 - An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)
$39.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."The greates ...Show more