The Night of the Hunter (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Davis Grubb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A rediscovered diabolical slice of great American noir'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?'One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unforgettable figure of Preacher, a psychopath who relentl ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the titl ...Show more
Pity the Beast by Robin McLean
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A brutalized woman is left for dead. But dead is the one thing she isn't. With a stolen horse and rifle, she escapes into the mountains, and a small posse of her tormentors has to gear up and give chase--whether to beg forgiveness or shut her up for good, nobody knows. With detours through time, space ...Show more
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. 'You and I are family. Blood and treasure. Listen to me, I cre ...Show more
Trilobites & Other Stories by Breece Pancake
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death. "It would be easy to allow his one collection of stories to be buried under the landslide of books publishe ...Show more
A Heart So White (PB) by Javier Marias
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"A Heart so White" is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. "A Heart so White" begins as ...Show more
The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of rescuing his former idol. But as the brothers tr ...Show more
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His ...Show more
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