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Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The hero of this black farce of a book is Gerald Samper, a ghostwriter to unbearable sports celebrities and rock stars, whose dream is to write the libretto of an opera.After an unsuccessful sojourn in Suffolk that ends in the accidental death of an ancient aristocrat, Gerry returns to Tuscany to the si ...Show more
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Gerald Samper is not a lucky man. Ghost writer of terrible celebrity memoirs and lethally bad cook, he now watches as his beloved house falls off a hill in Tuscany. But he and his guests have been saved from certain death by an apparition - in the form of a certain deceased English princess with great l ...Show more
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds by James Hamilton-Paterson
$21.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully written blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition which includes the acclaimed essay 'Sea Burial'. Hamilton-Paterson writes about fishing, piracy, ecological ...Show more
Trains, Planes, Ships & Cars by James Hamilton-Paterson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars, ships and locomotives from 1900 to 1941 by the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds. This dazzling book describes the flourishing of transport and travel, and the engineering that made it possible, in the years before the ...Show more
Under the Radar: A Novel by James Hamilton-Paterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable, the great delta-winged machines are also equipped with state of the art electronic warfare devices that jam American radar systems. Evading the fighters scra ...Show more