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1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd; James Harkin; John Mitchinson
$17.98 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you speechless. - Flowers get suntans.- Denmark imports prisoners.- Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.- The Republic of Ireland first got post ...Show more
1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted by John Lloyd; John Mitchinson; James Harkin
$17.99 AUD
Category: Gift
"Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place."--New York Times This book is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia - informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining. Every fact in this magnificent littl ...Show more
1,342 Qi Facts to Leave You Flabbergasted by John Lloyd; James Harkin; John Mitchinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
"Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place."--New York TimesThis book is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia - informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining. Every fact in this magnificent little ...Show more
2,024 QI Facts to Stop You in Your Tracks by John Lloyd; James Harkin; Anne Miller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gift | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television. Here creator John Lloyd and QI elves James Harkin and Anne Miller bring together 2,024 brain-tickling brand new facts to stop you in your tracks... Humans glow in the dark. The Pope drives a blue Ford Focus. One of the moons of Uranus is called Ma ...Show more
Bombs Away - The Story of a Bomber Team by John Steinbeck; James H. Meredith (Introduction by)
$30.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential ...Show more
John Richardson At Home by John Richardson; James Reginato (Introduction by); François Halard (Photographer)
$130.00 AUD
Category: Interiors
Famed Picasso biographer and art historian Sir John Richardson opens the doors of residences from his life, revealing an autobiographical sketch through handsomely decorated rooms filled with art, antiques, and intriguing mementoes, each with a special story. John Richardson's Bohemian Aristocrat interi ...Show more
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser; Alfred Kazin (Introduction by); John C. Berkey (Editor); Charles D. Winters (Editor); James L. W. West (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.
The Christmas Chronicles by John Townsend; James Newman Gray (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
The Christmas Chronicles is a collection of 24 Christmas-themed short stories - around 500 words each - taking place at the North Pole from 1st to 24th December as Santa Claus prepares to launch his sleigh to deliver the presents. The stories will feature Santa, elves, reindeer, and other characters, an ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy by James Purdy; John Waters (Introduction by)
$35.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Collected here for the first time are all James Purdy's short stories--fifty-six--including seven drawn from unpublished archives. Characterised by his dark sense of humour and jaundiced eye towards American culture, Purdy was considered one of the greatest--and most underappreciated--writers in America ...Show more
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages by James Cook, John Hawkesworth
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The first-ever illustrated account of Captain James Cook's epic eighteenth-century voyages, complete with excerpts from his vivid journals. This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders w ...Show more
Vagabond Papers by John Stanley James
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian History
Australian life has never had a chronicler quite like the Vagabond. Renowned as journalist and 'eminently unconventional character', he suffered extremes of poverty and prosperity. These enabled him to record first-hand experiences revealing the degradation of life in the festering slums of the Victoria ...Show more
Votan and Other Novels by John James
$21.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Fantasy Masterworks
In the second century AD, a Greek nobleman is travelling and living abroad in Germany while carrying on an affair with a military man's wife. When discovered, he takes an emergency business trip to save his life and packs amongst his belongings certain items that lead the people he encounters to think h ...Show more
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