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A Man of Honour: The target is a man. I am the bullet. by Simon Smith
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
One fine March day in 1868, gunshots rang out at a society charity event in Sydney's harbourside suburb of Clontarf. In the aftermath, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh – son of Queen Victoria – lay close to death, while the assembled crowd seized and beat his attacker, Irish-born Henry James O'Farrell. Who was ...Show more
A Pavane for Another Time by SMITH BERNARD
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art
The second volume in the autobiography of Australian art historian, Bernard Smith, following Boy Adeodatus. This tells of his life in the 1940s: from his marriage and early work in NSW to his formal training in London, meeting with other art historians including Anthony Blunt, domestic life at The Abbey ...Show more
A Promise of Ankles by Alexander McCall Smith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
From the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends.The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will ...Show more
A Promise of Ankles (44 Scotland Street Novel #14) by Alexander McCall Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street # 14
We are back in Scotland Street, where Bertie is now living with his father and younger brother, Ulysses, his mother, Irene, having gone off to Aberdeen (at long last, in the view of some). Bertie's father has found a friend, and is trying to get to know her better. Irene, though, may have other ideas. B ...Show more
A Season In Hell by Arthur Rimbaud; Louise Varese (Translator); Patti Smith (Introduction by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat -- a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths."Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to fr ...Show more
A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Smith, Daniel
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: A Short History of the World
Discover the power of the book through fifty of the most influential texts ever written from around the world and throughout time. From ancient game-changers like the Epic of Gilgamesh, through sacred texts and works of philosophical rumination by the likes of Confucius and Plato, via scientific treati ...Show more
A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Every year, on 31 December, Hank and his older brother Jacob make a pilgrimage to their father's grave. They have never been close - indeed, they have never even liked one another - but they keep this promise, made to their father before he died. This year Jacob's friend Lou comes with them. As they dri ...Show more
A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #23) by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm ...Show more
A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency #23) by Alexander McCall Smith
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Ser.
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm ...Show more
A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia's All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls meets Amelia Earhart. It's the real-life story of a daring Australian woman who did something extraordinary - then met an early, mysterious end. From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasur ...Show more
A Tale of Two Kitties Cat Tote by GIBBS SMITH
$30.00 AUD
Category: Tote Bag | Series: Love Lit
STYLISH TOTES FOR CARRYING YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS $20.00 U.S. 16" wide x 15 1â2" tall x 5" gusset natural cotton, 22" handles Made in the U.S.A.
A Time of Love and Tartan (44 Scotland Street #12 HB) by Alexander McCall Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith ...With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its twelfth season in the Scotsman, making it the longest ...Show more