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London: Faber and Faber, 2003. Man Booker Winner. Used. Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the twenty-first century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes.

London: University of Queensland Press, 1953. Hardcover/Vintage. Used. **In excellent condition for a 70 year old book.No cracks on the spine, no inscription on the inside and no tears or rips...The daughter of a Church of England clergyman, she married Rev Henry Cowper Cradock, also a Church of England clergyman and took his initials as well as his surname as her nom de plume. Their only child, Aline Mary, named after her mother-in-law Aline, was born in 1905.

PAPERBACK EDITION. SOME PAGES LOOSE[Paddington, N.S.W.]: Women's Health Advisory Service, 1997. Used. Describes the function of the liver in health and illness, and includes a collection of recipes formulated to combat headaches, low metabolism, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies, and fatigue.

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Pymble, NSW, Australia: Sun Books, 1975. Australian Author. Used. Caddie, A Sydney Barmaid is the fictionally embellished autobiography of Catherine "Caddie" Edmonds, who worked as a barmaid in Sydney during the Great Depression. Published anonymously in 1953 under Edmonds' nickname, which was coined by a lover who likened her to "the sleek body and class of his Cadillac motorcar", Caddie attracted wide critical acclaim upon its original publication in London, and became a bestseller when it was adapted into a feature film in 1976, one year after International Women's Year.

Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. Used. Sarah is just seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a cell that measures only seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth as well as pressure to marry the local lord's son, she decides to renounce the world--with all its dangers, desires, and temptations--and commit herself to a life of prayer.But it soon becomes clear that the thick, unforgiving walls of Sarah's cell cannot protect her as well as she had thought. With the outside world clamoring to get in and the intensity of her isolation driving her toward drastic actions, even madness, her body and soul are still in grave danger. When she starts hearing the voice of the previous anchoress whispering to her from the walls, Sarah finds herself questioning what she thought she knew about the anchorhold, and about the village itself.With the lyricism of Nicola Griffith's Hild and the vivid… Read More

London: Bison Group, 1991. Hard Cover/oversize. Used. Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her and her husband (Henreid), a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans.

Readers Digest, Date of Publication. Hardcover. Used. Hardcover. More Details... Original Title. Humphrey Bogart (Hollywood Portraits).Humphrey DeForest Bogart , nicknamed Bogey, was an American film and stage actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema. Bogart began acting in Broadway shows, beginning his career in motion pictures with Up the River (1930) for Fox. Bogart appeared in supporting roles for the next decade, sometimes portraying gangsters. Bogart was praised for his work as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936) but remained secondary to other actors Warner Bros. cast in lead roles. His breakthrough from supporting roles to stardom came with High Sierra (1941) and The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films. Bogart's private detectives, Sam Spade (in The Maltese Falcon) and Phillip Marlowe (in… Read More

London: Bison Books, 1992. Hardcover. Used. Recounts the life and career of the popular actor and describes each of his films

London: Bison Books, 1992. Hardcover/Rare. Used. Marlene Dietrich has exercised her spell as powerfully off screen as on. From the vantage point of a long-time film critic, broadcaster, Alexander Walker, author of major biographies on Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, gives an authoritative and entertaining account on how the legend of Marlene Dietrich grew, from the femme fatale of The Blue Angel to the svelte nightclub entertainer of Las Vegas.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Hard Cover/oversize. Used. Hardcover, ISBN 9780861248360 Publisher: Bison Books Ltd, London, 1991Used - Very Good. Hollywood Classics series. Note: heavy book. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Includes dust jacket.

London: Pan Books, 2008. Used. He thinks he sees a flash of emotion in her eyes. Sympathy? Then it's gone. 'Whatever you think this is going to be like, ' she whispers, 'it's going to be worse.' When beautiful serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim, the man in charge of hunting her down, she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation. So why, after ten days of horrifying physical and mental torture, did she release Detective Archie Sheridan from the brink of death and hand herself in? Two years on, Archie remains driven by a terrifying obsession that was born during his time alone with Gretchen. One thing is clear Archie does not believe he was ever truly freed. Now Archie returns to lead the search for a new killer, whose recent attacks on teenage girls have left the city of Portland reeling. Shadowed by vulnerable young reporter Susan Ward, Archie knows that only one person can help him climb into the mind of this psychopath. But can Archie finally manage to… Read More

London: Century, 1992. Hardcover/First Edition/Collec. Used. Michael Caine is the best-loved film actor Britain has ever produced. Here, for the first time, he reveals the truth about his childhood, his family and his hard-fought journey from London to Hollywood, bringing to life the lean years and the triumphs with astonishing candour.

New York: Century, 2004. Used. Century London, 2004 Less common UK first printing of this celebrated novel. in a perfect CONDITION.No marks, no names, no damageAn ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past -- and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled -- until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a… Read More

London: PAN, 1952. Vintage. Used. PAPERBACK 1952 EDITION. NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONS .IN GOOD CONDITION HOWEVER SOME PAGE DISCOLOURATION DUE TO AGEErskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule.

London: Scarlet, 1996. Used. An impetuous tomboy, Billie was everything Travis Kent claimed to despise in a woman, but every time they met, magic filled the air between them. Although they worked side by side, Travis did his best to ignore Billie, until he was forced to spend a weekend with his bewitching colleague. Soon, Travis was rethinking his life in order to make Billie his, but then he made a serious mistake and Billie disappeared. Travis couldn't understand why Billie had left him, but she knew that she couldn't stay with the man she loved if he didn't trust her.

New York: Text Publishing Company, 2012. Used. Twelve-year-old Florine Gilham lives in a fishing village on the coast of Maine with her parents in what would appear to be an idyllic situation - on the waters in a harbour, where she and her friends run wild in the nearby pine woods and along the rocky shores. But in August of 1963, Carlie, Florine's mother, disappears without a trace, and Florine and her grief-stricken father must move on with their lives, even as the mystery of what might have happened plagues them. Both nurtured and hindered by those she has always known, Florine must find her way to young adulthood while clinging to the hope that her mother will return and her life, as she knew it, will continue. Written in the voice of a feisty young heroine and filled with the dry wit that people on the coast of Maine are famous for, Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea is an amazing debut novel written by native Morgan Callan Rogers.

Vintage Books, 2006. Used. This brilliant book tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen -- Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, 'controlling' its Jewish population. Born into an established, politically moderate family, Louis Darquier ('de Pellepoix' was a later affectation) proceeded from modest beginnings to dissemble his way to power, continually reinventing himself in conformity with an obsession with racial purity and the latent anti-Semitism of the French Catholic Church. He was the ultimate chancer: always broke, always desperate for attention, social cachet, women and drink, he became 'one of the few men to put on weight during the Second World War', and after it was over he decamped to Spain, never to be brought to justice for having sent thousands of Jews, men, women and children, to the camps. Early on in his career he married the alcoholic Myrtle Jones from… Read More

London: Text Publishing Company, 2016. Used. Written with unerring skill and insight, The Dyehouse is a masterly portrait of postwar Australia, when industrial work was radically transformed by new technologies and society changed with it. Mena Calthorpe?who herself worked in a textile factory?takes us inside this world, vividly bringing to life the people of an inner-Sydney company in the mid-1950s: the bosses, middlemen and underlings; their dramatic struggles and their loves. This powerful and affecting novel was first published in 1961, and is the hundredth book in the Text Classics series. The new edition comes with an introduction by Fiona McFarlane, acclaimed author of The Night Guest. Mena Calthorpe was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, in 1905, and grew up there. After marrying, Calthorpe moved to Sydney and lived for most of her life in the Sutherland Shire. Working in office jobs and writing in her spare time, she was active in literary groups and in the Labor Party?for some years she… Read More

Pascal Press, 1999. Used. Excel 2ug Topic Area Discovery. Lloyd Cameron. H