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Augustus by John Williams
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award In "Augustus, " the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical novel set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire, whose greatness was matched by his brutality. To tell the story, William ...Show more
Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can be Saved by Peter Andrews; John Williams (Foreword by); Gerry Harvey (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He ...Show more
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is by the author of Stoner. Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Color ...Show more
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, ...Show more
Common Ground : Around Britain in 30 writers by John Simmons, Rob Williams & Tim Rich
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Ali Smith finds that the modern landscape still suggests the other-worldly creatures she used to read about in folk tales. Niall Griffiths laments the clumsy tributes to Dylan Thomas that cover every available surface in Laugharne. Virginia Woolf's Orlando might seem to be standing beside you in the unc ...Show more
Forensic Recovery of Human Remains Archeological Approaches by Schultz John J. Wheeler Sandra M. Williams Lana J. Dupras Tosha L.
$145.00 AUD
Category: History
Nothing but the Night by John Williams
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Stoner author John Williams's first novelis a searing look ata man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope. Having dropped o ...Show more
Nothing but the Night by John Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Author of "Stoner"
Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimac ...Show more
Stoner by John Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the ...Show more
Stoner by WILLIAMS JOHN EDWARD
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the ...Show more
Stoner by John Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the waterstones book of the year 2013. "It's the most marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature". (Ian McEwan, BBC Radio 4). Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner ...Show more