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The Infatuations by Javier Marias
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is o ...Show more
The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Man of Feeling" is a story of love and memory by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and t ...Show more
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Thus Bad Begins, prize-winning author Javier Marias examines a household living in the unhappy shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eduardo Muriel is a famous fil ...Show more
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
**Named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times** From the internationally acclaimed author of The Infatuations comes the mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history--a novel about the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. ...Show more
Tomas Nevinson by Javier Marias
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A thrilling new literary offering from the celebrated author of Berta Isla and The Infatuations Tomás Nevinson has left the secret service and returned to his old job working in the British Embassy in Madrid. Assumed dead by his wife Berta, Tomas attempts to resume his old life and heal from his psychol ...Show more
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me" is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when ...Show more
Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marias
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATORThe final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marías . . . If you're already a fan, you'll know what to expect and rejoice. If you're not, what a treat you have in store' The ...Show more
Venice, An Interior by Javier Marias
$12.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"Venice is a hypercity. Here the narrow becomes wide, the near becomes far, the timeless becomes transient, the limited becomes infinite . . . ' Venice is a place of fascinating contradictions, equally full of glamour and chaos. It has a unique romantic appeal that lingers in the imagination, attracting ...Show more
When I Was Mortal by Javier Marias
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In the dark narratives that make up "When I Was Mortal" by Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", a dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pai ...Show more
While the Women are Sleeping by Javier Marias
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his generation, Javier Marias is best known for his spy trilogy, "Your Face Tomorrow", which has been compared to Proust and hailed as one of the great modern European novels. In his first short story collection for fifteen years, beautifully translated by Ma ...Show more
While the Women are Sleeping by Marias, Javier, Costa, Margaret Jull
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Written Lives by Javier Marias (tr from Spanish Margaret Jull Costa)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Rudyard Kipling to James Joyce, Emily Bronte to Vernon Lee and Henry James to Joseph Conrad, Written Lives throws a new and fascinating light upon these well-known literary figures.Inspired to revisit the lives of some of the world's most eminent writers of all time, looking at them from the angle ...Show more