Inside Maverick's by Doug Acton
$60.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Every winter when the ocean buoys start to read 10-, 15-, and 20-feet, the coast of Half Moon Bay, California, is transformed by an enormous wave called Maverick's. Recognized as one of the most dangerous big wave surf breaks in the world, Maverick's is big, cold, and sickeningly powerful. It's the best ...Show more
Shakespeare : The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Peter Ackroyd's method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, Ackroyd not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. The book is packed with gems - an ...Show more
Thames - Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
"Thames: Sacred River" is about the river from source to sea. It covers history from prehistoric times to the present, the flora and fauna of the river, paintings and photographs inspired by the Thames, its geology, smells and colours, its literature, laws and landscape, its magic and myths, its archite ...Show more
The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Published October 2006 'I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the invader. It will stir your blood, Sophia.' Sophia Chrysanth ...Show more
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
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Category: New Hardbacks
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw - and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializin ...Show more
Shahnameh by Firdaws i
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Category: New Hardbacks
A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire.
John Kenneth Galbraith : His Life, His Politics, His Economics - SIGNED by Richard Parker
$53.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of America's most famous economists for good reason. From his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor" to his denunciation of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, Galbraith consistently challenged "conventional wisdom" (a phrase he coined). He ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: New Hardbacks
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Didion is a writer's writer, admired and adored by a horde of famous magazine, film and book writers who continue to publicise her work. Didion is 'the First Lady of journalism' (The Observer) First published 2005. ...Show more
Emily's Good Nightmares by Rob Reger
$22.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Readers journey inside the nocturnal world of the popular anti-heroine of Emily the Strange and Emily's Secret Book of Strange as they explore Emily's vivid dreamlife and her sometimes scary, sometimes bizarre imaginings. 35,000 first printing.