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An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Afr ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title presents sixteen masterpieces of short fiction from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, ...Show more
Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession.Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted b ...Show more
Love is Blind by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You don't see me as I really am. All the many nuances of Lika Blum. The light and the dark. You just see the light'When Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father and begin a wildly different new chapter ...Show more
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
The Romantic by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and ...Show more
The Romantic by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and ...Show more
Trio by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From one of Britain's best-loved writers, the story of three people living secret lives in the tumultuous summer of 1968A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in mak ...Show more
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately d ...Show more
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