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![Camouflage by Murray Bail 9781860469022 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5978282/6055308/9781860469022__31408.1729741424.jpg?c=1 "Camouflage by Murray Bail 9781860469022 [USED COPY]")
Camouflage by Murray Bail 9781860469022 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $4.36These three stories vindicate Murray Bail's reputation as one of Australia's most celebrated novelists. In the title story, a middle-aged piano-tuner becomes a camouflage roof-painter during World... -
![Kew: A History by Ray Desmond 9781860465291 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9736629/10753256/9781860465291__06232.1781409604.jpg?c=1 "Kew: A History by Ray Desmond 9781860465291 [USED COPY]")
Kew: A History by Ray Desmond 9781860465291 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $3.32This informative volume traces the extraordinary evolution over more than two centuries of Kew's historic landscape, which began with two private royal gardens and expanded through the work of some... -
Death Of The Body by C. K. Stead 9781846554711
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09"Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino" - Jackie Wullschläger, Financial TimesProfessor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body... -
The Jade Cat by Suzanne Brogger 9781846559068
Booksplease Price: $36.55Beginning with the great-grandfather Isidor Levin and his emigration from Poland in the 19th century, his establishment of The Royal Danish Distillery - creators of the famous Danish snaps - and the... -
The Naked Madonna by Jan Wiese 9781846554223
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The collapse in 1989 of the newly-built church at Perugia, killing the congregation of notables gathered for its consecration, just as they have discovered in themselves the ability to sing in... -
Roads To Santiago Cees Nooteboom 9781860464195
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and architecture, its climate and its people, in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an... -
The Faculty Of Useless Knowledge Yury Dombrovsky 9781846556982
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36The Year of Terror, 1937. Zybin, an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata, finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin's reign. Soon, he... -
Bali, Java in My Dreams by Christine Jordis 9781846559099
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Relying on atmosphere and sensation over fact and statistic, Christine Jordis has written a deeply personal, vividly impressionistic account of several journeys to the Indonesian islands of Bali and... -
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and necessary evil - but with God, a... -
Capital by Maureen Duffy 9781860468308
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51A lone Londoner maps the city, hearing beneath its surface the urgent whispers of the past. As he listens he grows convinced they are predicting London's future.Meepers, homeless and dishevelled, yet... -
Holden's Performance by Murray Bail 9781860465925
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34.Model: Australian. No frills.Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to... -
The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is three hundred years since it was actively at war with its traditional enemy two days' sail across the... -
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric 9781846559105
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The time is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its... -
All The Names Jose Saramago 9781860467202
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose SaramagoSenhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the... -
The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.18What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe?In Saramago's fable, a new island is sent spinning through the ocean like... -
Stone by Osip Mandelstam 9781846553370
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09'There is a salubrious elan about much of the book, and the fact that it is a book, not just a selection the significant poems, amplifies our sense of what Stone really means to its contemporary... -
Baltasar & Blimunda by Jose Saramago
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home... -
Eleni Nicholas Gage 9781860463464
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder.In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her... -
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the... -
Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'I look at all of Carver's work as just one story, for his stories are all occurences, all about things that just happen to people and cause their lives to take a turn... In formulating the mosaic of... -
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg 9781860461675
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97The original Scandinavian thriller One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an... -
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43'A brilliant work of art that deserves a far wider readership' Ian McEwanFROM THE PUBLISHERS OF STONER AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD COMES REUNIONReunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal... -
![Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg 9781860461675 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9678283/10695003/9781860461675__98307.1781300381.jpg?c=1 "Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg 9781860461675 [USED COPY]")
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg 9781860461675 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.11The original Scandinavian thriller One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an... -
The Woman And The Ape by Peter Høeg 9781860463686
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.80The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens,... -
Freemasonry by Alexander Piatigorsky 9781846555596
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66This study considers the institution of Freemasonry from the point of view of both masons and their critics, as well as from the author's own. In the first section, it gives an outline of masonic... -
The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781860460906
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.14At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October... -
Amsterdam: A brief life of the city by Geert Mak
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil... -
The Birds Have Also Gone by Yashar Kemal 9781846559624
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62There is an ancient Turkish tradition which promises a place in paradise to anyone who sets a small bird free. Three boys start up a bird-catching business to enable people to free them in order to... -
Barcelona Robert Hughes 9781860468247
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a... -
![Eucalyptus by Murray Bail 9781860464959 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9736627/10753254/9781860464959__45829.1781409602.jpg?c=1 "Eucalyptus by Murray Bail 9781860464959 [USED COPY]")
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail 9781860464959 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.37On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the... -
Where I'm Calling From: The Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.47Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories, revised the texts and published them in this authorative edition.The stories in Where I'm... -
Fairy Gunmother by Daniel Pennac 9781860464454
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62A policeman on a mission of mercy is shot dead at point-blank range by a sweet old granny on a frosty morning. The neighbourhood, Paris's bubbling Belleville quarter, is already in uproar because... -
The Towpath by Jesus Moncada 9781846555657
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09During the Great War, the Spanish town at the centre of this novel turned into a boom-town, due to the demand for coal. After that, the downhill slide began, hastened on by Anarchists and... -
Lime's Photograph by Leif Davidsen
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Peter Lime is trained to hunt down his prey and catch them on film. But now he is the one being hunted. Whose prey has he become? And what is it that he has that these people will kill to get? Lime... -
![Homesickness by Murray Bail 9781860466830 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5976872/6053899/9781860466830__47955.1729737714.jpg?c=1 "Homesickness by Murray Bail 9781860466830 [USED COPY]")
Homesickness by Murray Bail 9781860466830 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.64Thirteen Australian package tourists set off around the world on the holiday of a lifetime. But as they trawl from country to country, through cities and round ever more obscure museums they find... -
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 9781860461170
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96'A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man's efforts can change the future for so many. It's a real message of hope.' Michael MorpurgoDiscover this beloved... -
Shame by Bergljot Haff 9781846555633
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.47Translated by Sverre Lyngstad. Idun Hov's experiences condemn her to a life spent mostly in a mental hospital where she begins to write. The trials of Idun Hov's life and of Norway itself enter her... -
Nothing If Not Critical by Robert Hughes
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98A timeline of artistic endeavour from the formal resources of the past to the boom-and-bust media hype of a postmodern age.In these celebrated essays Robert Hughes explores the lives and works of... -
Georges Perec: A Life in Words by David Bellos 9781846554209
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.69"It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec... -
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Discover William Maxwell's classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic'A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any...