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A Detective's Complaint by Shimon Adaf
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\Lost Detective Trilogy Ser.
These days, Elish Ben Zaken has traded working as a private investigator for writing detective novels based on unsolved cases from the past. He appears to live an ordinary writer's life: meeting with his agent, attending literary conferences. But all is not quite right with Elish, who cannot escape his ...Show more
Egypt: Lost Civilizations by Christina Riggs
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
Examining the history, art, and religion of ancient Egypt, an illuminating look at why it has been so influential throughout the centuries. From Roman villas to Hollywood films, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspiration in many other cultures. But why, exactly, has this been the ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provi ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he m ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the two novels - "The Captive" and "The Fugitive" - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. However, this is far from an idyllic st ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust by Marcel Proust
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.
Lost Melbourne by Heather Chapman and Judith Stillman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Lost Ser.
Lost Melbourne looks at the cherished places in the city that time, fashion and progress have swept aside - the old cinemas, the outdated hotels, the Victorian buildings in the wrong place. Organised chronologically from the date of loss, the book looks back at all kinds of Melbourne institutions that h ...Show more
Nubia - Lost Civilizations by Sarah Schellinger
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
Drawing on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries, a revealing look at the rich and dynamic civilization of Nubia. Nubia, the often-overlooked southern neighbor of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians' religious, soci ...Show more
One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset - A Novel by Shimon Adaf
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Lost Detective Trilogy Ser.
At age thirty, Elish Ben Zaken has found himself in a life he never imagined. As a university student, Elish was an esteemed rock-music critic for local newspapers; now, disenchanted with an increasingly commercialized music scene, he has joined a private investigation agency where he is content to be a ...Show more
Take up and Read by Shimon Adaf
$36.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Lost Detective Trilogy Ser.
In the summer of 2014, at the height of the Gaza-Israel conflict, Elish Ben-Zaken met the poet and librarian Nahum Farkash in the border town of Sderot. The two men spoke only briefly, but in that brief encounter, Elish might have missed the key to unraveling the case of a Sderot woman who disappeared f ...Show more
The Greeks: Lost Civilizations by Philip Matyszak
$37.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
This book is a portrait of Ancient Greece--but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East, or that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas. Philip Matyszak tells the lost stories of the Greeks outside Greece, compatriots of ...Show more
The Hittites - Lost Civilizations by Damien Stone (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
An accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor. Famed for their warriors, the Hittites flourished in the region of modern Turkey from the seventeenth to thirteenth centuries BC. In this book, archaeologist Damien Stone explores the rich history of the Hittite civilization beyond t ...Show more