Second Hand Books

ISBN: 9780733316548
Title: 1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE - 2ND HAND
Author: BOXALL (ED)
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: SECOND HAND

A very good copy in likes dust jacket.

n the style of the phenomenally successful '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', this is a bold, bright and incisive guide to the books and writers that have had real impact - whether in the form of critical acclaim or as cult classics. This wide-ranging selection by a superb international team of writers and critics contains classics as well as those books that are hot in contemporary fiction. This must-have book is the perfect reference for everyone who loves to read.

Imprint: ABC PUBLICATIONS
RRP: $25.00

ISBN: 9780571235780
Title: 1606 : William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear - 2ND HAND
Author: SHAPIRO JAMES
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A near fine copy in like dust jacket. 1st Edition.

Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for his bestseller 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. Now, to mark the forthcoming 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, comes a compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life: 1606.

1606 is an intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare's most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.

1606, while a very good year for Shakespeare, was a fraught one for England. Plague returns. There is surprising resistance to the new king's desire to turn England and Scotland into a united Britain. And fear and uncertainty sweep the land and expose deep divisions in the aftermath of a failed terrorist attack that came to be known as the Gunpowder Plot.

James Shapiro deftly demonstrates how these extraordinary plays responded to the tumultuous events of this year, events that in unexpected ways touched upon Shakespeare's own life. By immersing us in Shakespeare's England, 1606 profoundly changes and enriches our experience of his plays, works that continue to speak to us with such immediacy.


Imprint: Faber and Faber
RRP: $28.00

ISBN: 9780747555001
Title: 30 DAYS IN SYDNEY - 2ND HAND
Author: CAREY PETER
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A very good copy in like dust jacket. 1st edition. Signed.

After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York friends for stories of Earth and Air and Fire and Water,' he writes, 'but that is exactly what was in my mind as I walked through immigration at Kingsford Smith International Airport.'

But Carey's friends turn out to be anarchic characters each of whom has had his own very individual ways of story-telling. Carey draws the reader helplessly into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and re-discovery.

Reading this book is a very physical experience, as bracing as the famous Southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's beauteous shores. Famous visual extravaganzas such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of Peter and his friends.

30 Days In Sydney offers the reader a private glimpse behind the glittering facades and the venetian blinds. It will exhilarate and enchant all who visit.

Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
RRP: $30.00

ISBN: 9780207153303
Title: AFRO DITE AND THE RAINBOW SERPENT - 2ND HAND
Author: CHERRY WAL
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: SECOND HAND

A very good copy in like dust jacket. 1st Edition.

Novel set on the north coast of New South Wales incorporating a narrative of pre-contact Aboriginal life and seafaring.


Imprint: ANGUS AND ROBERTSON
RRP: $15.00

ISBN: 9781740666114
Title: AFTER FIRE : A Biography of Clifton Pugh - 2ND HAND
Author: MORRISON SALLY
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A very good copy, previous owners name(in pencil) to coloured FFE in a very good, bright and clean dust jacket.1st Edition

Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1924, Clifton Pugh rose to prominence as a portrait and landscape painter, winning the Archibald Prize three times and an Order of Australia medal in 1985.

After attending the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, and serving as a soldier in the Australian Imperial Forces in New Guinea and Japan during the 1940s, he moved to Cottles Bridge and established his bush property home called Dunmoochin. Here, his art was inspired by the natural beauty of the Australian landscape, and he in turn helped to establish local conservation and environmental groups in the area.

Written in a sweeping, almost literary style, this detailed biography of Clifton Pugh is a landmark volume that offers an alternative perspective to the biography of Clifton's former wife Judith Pugh's Unstill Life.

Sally Morrison draws on archival research and interviews with Pugh's family and friends to create a picture of a man damaged as much by love as by war in his personal life, and at the same time a bold and innovative artist and environmentalist.



Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
RRP: $50.00

ISBN: 9780091794842
Title: AFTER THE VICTORIANS : 1901-1953 - 2ND HAND
Author: WILSON A N
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A very good copy in like dustjacket. First edition.

When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the coronation of Elizabeth II. Britain has emerged victorious from a world war , but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? This is one of the questions A.N.Wilson seeks to answer in his masterly follow -up to the Victorians.



Imprint: Hutchinson
RRP: $28.00

ISBN: 9781408892060
Title: ALIAS GRACE - 2ND HAND
Author: ATWOOD MARGARET
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A near fine copy in like dust jacket. 1st thus.

A stunning new hardback edition of Margaret Atwood's classic work of true crime 'an explosive mixture of murder, sex and class conflict' (Daily Mail) soon to be a major Netflix original series

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

1859. Sixteen years have passed since teenaged Grace was locked up for the cold-blooded murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his lover, Nancy Montgomery. Saved from the gallows where her alleged accomplice was hanged, Grace claims to have no memory of the events which changed her life for ever.
Dr Simon Jordan is an expert in the field of amnesia. His objective is to unlock the dormant part of Grace 's mind and discover the truth behind one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of all time.


Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
RRP: $35.00

ISBN: 9781894965002
Title: ALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND - 2ND HAND
Author: CARROLL LEWIS
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A near fine copy in like dust jacket

Ghiuselev, like many illustrators before him, has responded to the siren song of a certain English schoolgirl and her trip down the rabbit hole. Like his Pinocchio (2002), this interpretation showcases his painterly style, mixing full-color scenes with vignettes reminiscent of the burnt sienna drawings in an old master's sketchbook. The twist is that every full-color illustration hails from one painting, reproduced on the cover, that incorporates most of the major episodes into one Escher-inspired dreamscape. Parlaying a single painting into enough artwork for Carroll's unabridged text presents obvious challenges. Readers may be bothered by the frequent repetition and sometimes awkward manipulation of key visuals, and the page design seems more focused on decorative effects than a strong correspondence between text and art. Nonetheless, Ghiuselev's ambitious vision and startling perspectives--such as a dramatic overhead view of the Mad Hatter's tea party--will delight children's literature enthusiasts and aspiring fine artists alike.

Imprint: SIMPLY
RRP: $30.00

ISBN: 9780062077561
Title: ALL THAT I AM - 2ND HAND
Author: FUNDER ANNA
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A near fine copy in like dust jacket. 1st US Edition

Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am.When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take breath-taking risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe-haven they think it to be, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart...'The strengths of Funder's writing are emotional and imaginative. In what she has to say about love, loss and betrayal there is profound truth' The Times'An often pacy and exciting read ... Funder captures perfectly the sense of her characters' deprived and dangerous lives' Daily Mail'A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do, please, read it' SpectatorAnna Funder is the author of the international bestseller Stasiland, which won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize and was published in 20 countries and translated into 16 languages. She is the recipient of numerous awards, and a former DAAD and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow


Imprint: Harper Collins
RRP: $28.00

ISBN: 9780701128517
Title: ANTIPODES : STORIES - 2ND HAND
Author: MALOUF DAVID
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A very good copy, slightly foxed, in a very good, bright & clean, lightly scuffed dust jacket. First edition. Signed.

ANTIPODES - stories which pinpoint the contrast between the old world and the new, between youth and age, love and hatred and even life and death itself. . . David Malouf is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed and popular poets and novelists. Now, with his first stunning collection of stories, which has won both the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Award for Fiction, he establishes himself as one of the most accomplished and provocative short-story writers of our time.


Imprint: Chatto & Windus Publishers
RRP: $75.00

ISBN: 9780770435813
Title: APACHE WARS - 2ND HAND
Author: HUTTON PAUL ANDREW
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A near fine copy, small ink remainder mark to bottom edge, in a near fine dust jacket. 1st Edition.

In the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland.

They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides--the Apaches and the white invaders—blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers, he was never trusted by either but desperately needed by both. He was the only man Geronimo ever feared. He played a pivotal role in this long war for the desert Southwest from its beginning in 1861 until its end in 1890 with his pursuit of the renegade scout, Apache Kid.

In this sprawling, monumental work, Paul Hutton unfolds over two decades of the last war for the West through the eyes of the men and women who lived it. This is Mickey Free's story, but also the story of his contemporaries: the great Apache leaders Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Victorio; the soldiers Kit Carson, O. O. Howard, George Crook, and Nelson Miles; the scouts and frontiersmen Al Sieber, Tom Horn, Tom Jeffords, and Texas John Slaughter; the great White Mountain scout Alchesay and the Apache female warrior Lozen; the fierce Apache warrior Geronimo; and the Apache Kid. These lives shaped the violent history of the deserts and mountains of the Southwestern borderlands--a bleak and unforgiving world where a people would make a final, bloody stand against an American war machine bent on their destruction.


Imprint: CROWN CONTENT
RRP: $25.00

ISBN: 9780734411464
Title: ARRIVAL : Sketches From a Timeless Land - 2NDHAND
Author: TAN SHAUN
Format: BOXED SET
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A near fine copy in a very good box.


This special boxed set of the internationally acclaimed graphic novel "The Arrival" and its new companion volume of commentary and developmental drawings, "Sketches from a Nameless Land", will fascinate anyone who has fallen under the spell of Shaun Tan's timeless story, and offers a revealing insight into the craft of one of Australia's most compelling author-illustrators.

Imprint: LOTHIAN
RRP: $75.00