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"In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day fr

"America, as we know it, has fragmented. Its machines have stopped, its communities have splintered, its history is forgotten, and the migration has started. This novel presents the story of an America adapting to a 'medieval future' without technology, science and social cohesion, and how two people find strength in one another against all odds." Very good condition. Published by Picador in 2007. Science Fiction/Dystopian Fiction pick up or postage available $10

Like New condition. Hardcover 260 pages Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008 Booko Description: The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller "The Reader, Homecoming "is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit. A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possib

Like New condition. Paperback 342 pages Scribner 2017 GoodReads Description: New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerising story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. Pick up is free and easy. Postage: Aust Post: $10.70. Express Post $13.70 In the Midst of Winte

Like New condition. Paperback 203 pages Simon & Schuster 2017 Booko Description: Pearl Buck's 1931 Pulitzer Prizewinning classic about the rise and fall of Chinese villagers before World War I comes to life in this evocative graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi. In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but d

Very Good condition. Hardcover 195 pages Alfred A. Knopf 2006 GoodReads Description: In this luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness

The Confusions Of Young Törless – Robert Musil Very Good condition. Paperback 168 pages Oxford University Press 2014 GoodReads Description: Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless, published in 1906 while he was a student, uncovers the bullying, snobbery, and vicious homoerotic violence at an elite boys academy. Unsparingly honest in its depiction of the author's t

The story of a Russian prima ballerina, and the demanding world of ballet surrounding her, her life and love, tragedies and joys. Hard cover, 414 pages. London, 1958. Excellent condition.

Death Comes to PEMBERLEY -A Novel by P D JAMES. Published by Alfred A Knopf in 2006. In excellent preowned condition. Pick up Brighton East or will post at Buyers expense. Please check my other listings

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Very Good condition. Paperback 189 pages Pulp the Classics Publishing 2013 GoodReads Description: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Da

Like New condition. Paperback 181 pages Picador 2008 GoodReads Description: No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English pe

Very Good condition. Paperback 218 pages GoodReads Description: Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerising novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees

Very Good condition. Hardcover 319 pages GoodReads Description: Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of you

Like New condition Hardcover 337 pages GoodReads Description: A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbour from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around

Very Good condition Paperback 309 pages GoodReads Description: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930

Very good condition Paperback 275 pages GoodReads Description: This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld.

Like New condition Hardcover 627 pages GoodReads Description: Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most he

As New condition Paperback 420 pages GoodReads Description: Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, v

Very good condition Paperback 242 pages GoodReads Description: Jen Montgomery's life appears, almost suddenly, to be at an impasse. Nothing is as secure or as certain as she had previously thought. Love, marriage, parenthood, family, work, the very fabric of her identity seems to be shifting. She had always considered herself a 'forever' person but now she isn't so sure, and this is frightening and exhilarating. As Monty struggles to reconcile her inescapable desire to break free with t

The listed price of $10 is for one novel and one bookmark. There are two lots available. The combination of items is the first buyers choice. The books are - 1. Blacktown by Shane Weaver 292pg 2. The Shark Net by Robert Drewe 387pg The bookmarks are - 1. Echidna - slides on - has ribbon 2. Owl - clips on - has chain with charm All items are new, as purchased Cash on pickup from Rosanna is preferred. Can post at buyers expense. Checkout my many other listings too.

As New condition Hardcover 370 pages GoodReads Description: One day while nursing her young son, Carolina receives a strange email from her boyfriend Aksel, detailing computer passwords and other instructions in event of his death. She grows worried at first, then irritated - this is so typical of her unsentimental partner. Aksel ends the message: Let's hope for the best! Five months later, he is dead. In her debut novel, Let's Hope for the Best, Carolina Setterwall recounts the inten

Very good condition Hardcover 292 pages GoodReads Description: Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As