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A Maggot by John Fowles
$18.65 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
A MAGGOT is not an historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot') in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It took shape as a mystery - a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives and deeds ...Show more
Daniel Martin by John Fowles
$18.65 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Bks.
A new trade paperback edition of "a masterpiece of symbolically charged realism....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner, Saturday Review). The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English pla ...Show more
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Bks.
Mark Brian, a young Anglican priest who does not have long to live, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in British Columbia. While sharing the hunting and fishing, the festivals and funerals and the joys and sorrows of a once proud tribe, Mark learns enough of life to prepare him for death.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$19.75 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India?s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight?s children? all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
$17.55 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Song of Soloman is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society ...Show more
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
$20.85 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Booker McConnell Prize winnner 1985.
What Am I Doing Here by Chatwin,Bruce
$18.65 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador Bks.
In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a wolf-boy in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.
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