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Red Shift by Alan Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In second-century Britain, Macey and a gang of fellow deserters from the Roman army hunt and are hunted by deadly local tribes. Fifteen centuries later, during the English Civil War, Thomas Rowley hides from the ruthless troops who have encircled his village. And in contemporary Britain, Tom, a precocio ...Show more
Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece by FERMOR PATRICK LEIGH
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Category: Travel | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past. Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fermo ...Show more
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda & William Weaver (transl.)
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective ...Show more
The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B. Edwards
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a ...Show more
The Captain's Daughter by Elizabeth (TRN) Robert (TRN); Chandler Aleksandr Sergeevich; Chandler Pushkin
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
$24.95 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: New York Review Books Classics
"The Chyrsalids "is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with muc ...Show more
The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of si ...Show more
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
"The Dud Avocado "follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, ...Show more
The Late Mattia Pascal by William (TRN) Charles (INT); Weaver Luigi; Simic Pirandello
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
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Category: No Category | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's "The Long Ships" resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm--canny, courageous, and above all lucky--is only a boy when he is abducte ...Show more
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success hasn't tak ...Show more
The Old Devils by John (INT) Kingsley; Banville Amis
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics