Headlong by Michael Frayn
$12.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Martin Clay, a young, would-be art historian, sees a chance of a lifetime: to perform a great public service, and to make his professional reputation. To obtain the treasure he thinks he has identified involves him setting up a classic sting and risking everything that is valuable to him.
Skios by Michael Frayn
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story of mislaid indentity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences, from the master of farce. On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turn ...Show more
Headlong by Michael Frayn
$27.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of one of art's elusive old masters. Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his scrupulous art-historian wife are invited to dinner by a boorish local landowner to assess the value of three dusty paintings moldering in the freezi ...Show more
Flashman and the Tiger by Fraser, George MacDonald
$17.55 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The Flashman Papers
Judicial Whispers by Caro Fraser
$18.65 AUD
Category: General Fiction
For Leo Davies, a charming, brilliant barrister in one of London's most prestigious chambers, life has been good. It's only when he applies to take silk that the whispers begin of Leo's lurid bisexual past. To scotch the rumors, Leo decides he must find a suitable woman and preferably marry her. He choo ...Show more
Beyond Forgiveness by Caro Fraser
$25.25 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A wealthy elderly man knows that he is dying. Haunted by memories of a woman whom he loved, had a child by, but never married, he goes through a secret wedding ceremony with her, and in his will leaves her and their daughter, Abby, £200,000 each. After his death Abby ¿ a single mother on the dole - find ...Show more
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with he ...Show more
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul--the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
This is a grandly entertaining novel for a new century- a comic,tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.Stretching from the Midwest at mid-century to the Wall Street and EasternEurope of today,this book brings and old fashioned world of civic vritue and sexual inhibitions ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: fine
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathe ...Show more