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Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more
Martin Bauman by Leavitt, David
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the dawn of the Reagan era Martin Bauman, nineteen, clever, ambitious and insecure, is enrolled at a prestigious college with a hard-won place under the tutelage of the legendary and enigmatic Stanley Flint, a man who can make or break writing careers with the flick of a weary hand. Martin is poised ...Show more
Shelter in Place by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet." -Rachel Cusk "A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel about all the bewildering ways we seek solace from the people and things that surround us." - Jenny Offill David Leavitt returns with his signature "coolly ele ...Show more
The Body of Jonah Boyd by David Leavitt
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1969 and Denny is on her way to the annual Thanksgiving dinner at the Wright's plush campus house. Denny is more nervous than usual because she has recently begun an affair with Dr Ernest Wright, a psychology professor who happens to be her boss. Needless to say, Ernest's wife Nancy doesn't suspect ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt
$27.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bl ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much : Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, th ...Show more
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe - a city filled with spies, crowned heads and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the S. S. Manhattan, two couples meet: P ...Show more
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