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Any Human Heart by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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: Contemporary
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
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Love is Blind by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
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
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery | Reading Level: very good
One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to g ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, includi ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigre living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, includin ...Show more
Restless: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by William Boyd
$17.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Restless, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list She continued her cross-examination and watched Romer's pleasure grow; he was enjoying this, she saw, and his enjoyment began to anger her. This wasn't some pastime, some idle flirtation - her ...Show more
Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Ten Bedtime Poems: Volume One by WILLIAM BOYD
$14.99 AUD
Category: Instead of a Card - Poetry Pamphlets
Why should children have all the fun? Reading poems in bed to oneself, to each other is surely one of life's great pleasures. Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume One), selected by novelist William Boyd, belongs on your bedside table. As he writes in the Introduction, 'novelists serious novelists, that is, literar ...Show more
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunio ...Show more