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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Blues | Reading Level: good-very good
A beautiful, heart-wrenching attempt to come to terms with a mother's suicide by one of Austria's greatest living writers.
Dark Water by Parker Bilal
27.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Pushkin Blues
A scientist specialising in chemical warfare is on the run in Istanbul in a gripping new investigation for 'one of crime fiction's most interesting and sympathetic detectives' (The Times) When Marcus Winslow appears at Private Investigator Makana's door one April morning, Makana does not realize that so ...Show more
Fräulein Else by F. H. (TRN) Arthur; Lyon Schnitzler
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Blues
Description: While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is for ...Show more
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Blues Ser.
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounte ...Show more
Laura: A Journey into the Crystal by Sue Dyson (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Blues
While working in a small geological museum, Alexis Hartz meets his cousin Laura, who has discovered a way to enter a geode. Travelling through a vast and glittering landscape of brilliant crystals, Alexis falls passionately in love with Laura. But when they return to the ordinary world, only friendship ...Show more
The Allure of Chanel by Paul Morand
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Blues
Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were put away in a drawer and only came to light one year after Chanel's death. Through Morand's transcription of their co ...Show more
The Man in a Hurry by Paul Morand
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Blues
Description: No one can keep up with Pierre Niox, the speediest antiques dealer in Paris, although not necessarily the most competent. As he dashes about at a dizzying pace, his impatience becomes too much to bear for those around him; his manservant, his only friend and even his cat abandon him. He beg ...Show more
The New Sorrows of Young W. by Ulrich Plenzdorf
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Blues
'I was just a regular idiot, a nutcase, a show-off and all that. Nothing to cry about. Seriously'Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognised genius - and dead - tells the story of his brief, spectacular life.It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of communist East Germany ...Show more
The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Blues Ser.
In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything--an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. ...Show more
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