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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The
The most heartwarming, glorious and gorgeous novel that you will read all year.
A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart.
Hardcover
$29.95
9781741751680
When Will There Be Good News?
The third Jackson Brodie novel by the bestselling author of Case Histories and One Good Turn
In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.
Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison.
Paperback
$32.95
9780385614511
Swan Peak
After the devastating events recounted in The Tin Roof Blowdown, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purcel, head for the mountains and trout streams of Montana for some much-needed healing.
Paperback
$32.99
9781409100515
Lemur, The
William ("Wild Bill") Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When Mulholland gets wind of a hostile biography planned for him by the investigative journalist Wilson Cleaver, he commissions his daughter's husband, John Glass, to pen the official line.
Paperback
$29.99
9780330461436
Blood and Tinsel
In this superb and distinctive memoir, Jim Sharman takes us on an epic personal journey from his childhood in his father's renowned boxing troupe, via the international success of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, to Los Angeles, Tokyo and London.
Hardcover
$49.95
9780522853773
Persepolis
Just in time for the film, both parts of Persepolis in the one volume, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.
Paperback
$27.95
9780099523994
Slow Journey South: Walking to Africa
When Paula Constant and her husband, Gary, attempt to break away from the conventional 9-to-5 routine, a few weeks lazing in a resort or packed in a tour bus is not what they have in mind.
Paperback
$27.95
9781741667967
American Journeys
Australia's bestselling author returns with a superb book about his journeys around America -- this is travel writing at its very best.
Hardcover
$49.95
9781740513166
That'd Be Right
William brings the World, or at least Australia, into our backyards as he writes about families and sport and politics and life in his familiar style that makes you feel as if he is sitting down talking to you. Both funny and insightful That'd Be Right is part memoir, part personal history of Australia over the last thirty years.
Paperback
$35.00
9780733622533
Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain
In this "geographical tour" of the nervous system, readers will find an entertaining and enlightening history of neuroscience and a look at the anatomy of the brain...The book's relaxed pace, interesting tangents and broad coverage make this book eminently suitable for anyone curious about the brain.
Hardcover
$35.00
9780674026100
Wall and Piece
The collected works of Britain's most wanted artist.
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world.
Paperback
$39.95
9781844137879
Patterns of Steam
Patterns of Steam captures the last glorious years of steam on the railways of Australia and New Zealand, the period in the 1960s and early 1970s when steam locomotives were in decline, but were still operating, though in diminishing numbers, much as they had for generations.
Hardcover
$125.00
The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft For Every Kitchen
The Elements of Cooking is an opinionated reference work destined to stand among the great works of the kitchen. It is slim, clear and to the point: here are the things you need to know how to do, here are the key words of the language of food, and here are the absolute essentials that every great chef knows.
Hardcover
$34.95
9781863951432
Karen Martini Cooking at Home
'If this collection of recipes does nothing else, I would like to think it encourages people -family, friends, households - to share at least one meal together, two or three times a week.'
Hardcover
$55.00
9781920989866
Dry Gardening Australia
Dry Gardening Australia, by leading landscape designer and horticulturist Jonathan Garner, is a practical, achievable and easy-to-follow guide to establishing or retrofitting a drought-tolerant, sustainable garden from the soil up.
Paperback
$39.95
9781741960648
Rosehips & Crabapples: A Rose-lover's Diary
Gardens are full of memories – of places, of plants, of people, of beauty created and shared, beauty which can be relived and enjoyed again years later. In a mostly incomprehensible world, a world increasingly dominated by cruelty and fear, it is in gardens that many people seek and find, even if temporarily, peace and tranquillity.
Hardcover
$59.95
9781920989729
Breaking Dawn
The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling vampire romance series that has developed a cult following among teens. Twilight tempted the imagination... New Moon made readers thirsty for more... Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon... And now - the book that everyone has been waiting for... Breaking Dawn.
Paperback
$24.99
9781905654291
Cherub 10: the General
The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever. CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that kids are spying on them.
Paperback
$17.99
9780340931844
Inland Empire
Laura Dern stars as Nikki, an actress signed to star in... a new movie?... an adulterous love story?... directed by Kingsley (Jeremy Irons) and co-starring the womanising Devon (Justin Theroux).
$34.95
MMA2644
Mighty Boosh Season 3
The eagerly awaited return of the smash hit cult comedy, written by and starring multi-award winning comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding.
$31.95
B015569
Chrome Dreams II (Ltd Ed - CD/DVD)
Enjoying one of the most prolific periods of his career, Neil Young delivers Chrome Dreams II. Hard but shiny, acoustic but also electric, Chrome Dreams II continues the new millennium resurgence in popularity for one of the greatest singer-songwriters in rock history.
$33.00
9362499064
Seven Seven
After a long hiatus Machine Translations are finally set to release their new long player on October 20. The new album entitled 'Seven Seven' is ten songs which offer an intriguing blend of the familiar MT quirky pop and epic instrumental adventure plus a new stripped back aesthetic and acoustic drive.
$28.95
URA219