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Air and Fire by Rupert Thomson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the turn of the century Theophile and Suzanne Valence sail into the Mexican copper-mining town of Santa Sofia. A natural perfectionist, Theo has come to build a metal church, designed by his mentor, the great engineer Gustave Eiffel. His wife Suzanne, in love, but wayward, graced with the gift of cla ...Show more
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters. The stories are narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pi ...Show more
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters.The stories are narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pia ...Show more
Dartmouth Park: A Novel by Rupert Thomson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this timely and explosive novel, an academic's seemingly mundane midlife crisis takes an alarming turn after his visit to a Greek monastery. It's February 2019. Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian with a German wife and a troubled nineteen-year-old son, is on his way back from a conference in Norw ...Show more
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One night in November 2002, PC Billy Tyler is called to a mortuary in Suffolk to guard the body of a notorious child-killer. But in the eerie silence of the hospital, the killer's presence begins to assert itself. A vivid evocation of an extraordinary moment in crime history, "Death of a Murderer" is a ...Show more
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A taut, unsettling novel that expertly explores the psychology of a man, a marriage and a murderer. In November 2002, Billy Tyler, a police constable in his mid-forties, is summoned to the mortuary of a hospital in Suffolk. For the next twelve hours, from seven in the evening till seven in the evenin ...Show more
Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The breakthrough novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Insult and The Book of Revelation. It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment ...Show more
Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A remarkable genre-defying novel: a vision, a fable, a love story, a ghost story... And then the night when my life began...A strange beginning. Soldiers, bright lights. The cold. And me being lifted, as if by surgeons, into a new world...It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, an eight year old ...Show more
Dreams of Leaving by Rupert Thomson
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
New Egypt is a village somewhere in the south of England. A village that nobody has ever left. Peach, the sadistic chief of police, makes sure of that. Then, one misty morning, a young couple secretly set their baby son Moses afloat on the river, in a basket made of rushes. Years later, Moses is liv ...Show more
How to Make a Bomb - A Novel by Rupert Thomson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
If he suddenly found what surrounded him unbearable, it was because it was artificialEverything had been designed and manufactured, and he was trapped in itPhilip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpecte ...Show more
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the late 80s, Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF. Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life. By the age of nineteen Katherine has lost her mother to cancer, and feels her father to be an increasingly distant figure. Instead of going to college, ...Show more
Never Anyone but You by Rupert Thomson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A novel of tremendous beauty . . . A wonderful achievement' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful and extraordinary book' Philip Pullman When Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled Lucie in rural Provence at the turn of the twentieth century, the two young women embark on a clandestine love a ...Show more