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Man's Fate by Andre Malraux
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37Shanghai, 1927, and revolution is in the air. As the city becomes caught up in violence and bloodshed, four people's lives are altered inexorably: idealist and intellectual Kyo Gisors, one of the... -
Rosa Jonathan Rabb 9781905559046
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In November 1918, socialist revolution sweeps across Germany, transforming Berlin, already ravaged by war, into a political battleground. Four women from the slums are discovered dead, all with... -
The Second Son Jonathan Rabb 9781905559220
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92On the Eve of Hitler's Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner is forced out of the Kriminalpolizei because he is a half Jew. Hoffner is not surprised given the rise of Nazism, and anyway his focus... -
The Country Waif: (Francois le Champi) by George Sand
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93The Country Waif (Francoise le Champi) is the second of the three pastoral novels which rank along with George Sand's autobiographical writing as her finest work. Although simple in themselves, these... -
Friendship by Maurice Blanchot 9780804727587 [USED COPY]
RRP: $69.68Booksplease Price: $12.86For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the... -
A Brief History of France, Revised and Updated Cecil Jenkins 9781472139511
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, France is home to extraordinary... -
A Brief History of Paris Cecil Jenkins 9781472146151
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a modern metropolis. Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time. There is... -
Impossible Erri De Luca 9781914495663
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41One morning, high in the Dolomite mountains, two hikers are some distance apart. The path in places is narrow and perilous. One man falls to his death. The other sounds the alarm. But these men are... -
Crossing the Sands: The Sahara Desert Track to Timbuktu by Citroen Half Track by Ariane Audoin-Debreuil 9781854432223
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $42.38On December 17, 1922, Andre Citroen sent an expedition of Citroen half tracks or autochenilles to follow the camel tracks across the Sahara desert from Algeria to Timbuktu on the banks of the River... -
Phnom Penh: A Cultural and Literary History by Milton Osborne 9781904955405
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80Forever linked in the public mind with the Pol Pot tyranny, Phnom Penh only became Cambodia's permanent capital in 1866. Long neglected by Western travellers, in the sixteenth century it was home to... -
Impossible Erri De Luca 9781914495373
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07***Longlisted for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2023***"If there's an entry point into the work of the enduring, award-winning Italian writer Erri De Luca, then N.S. Thompson's excellent... -
Coco Chanel: A Biography by Axel Madsen 9781408805817
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Coco Chanel's genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell - Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers... -
Coco Chanel: A Biography by Axel Madsen 9781408805817 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $1.61Coco Chanel's genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell - Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers... -
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War Paul Preston 9781845299460
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The war in Spain and those who wrote at first hand of its horrors.From 1936 to 1939 the eyes of the world were fixed on the devastating Spanish conflict that drew both professional war correspondents... -
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir by Paul French
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peace, author of Red or Dead'If you love Richard Lloyd...