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London: Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 2010. Used. Following 'Shame the Devil', George P. Pelecanos returns with his second novel starring Derek Strange and Terry Quinn - grizzled PI and erratic ex-cop.Hell to Pay is a 2002 crime novel by George Pelecanos. It is set in Washington DC and focuses on private investigator Derek Strange and his partner Terry Quinn. It is the second novel to involve the characters and is preceded by Right as Rain and followed by Soul Circus and Hard Revolution.

New York: Penguin Books,WELL READ PAPERBACK. CREASES TO THE SPINE AND COVER.1964. Used. **EX LIBRARY COVERED..The Naked Society is a 1964 book on privacy by Vance Packard. The book argues that changes in technology are encroaching on privacy and could create a society in the future with radically different privacy standards.

London: Grafton, 1989. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE AND SMALL TEAR ON TOP OF SPINEKiss and Tell by Trudy Pacter

"How you can find happiness in your business and reap all the rewards that it brings (including increased profits). Paddi explains exactly why enjoyment at work is important to your business success.

London: Rigby, 1977. Used.SOFT COVER EDITION. WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER Michael Fitzgerald Page (AM) (born 2 February 1922) is a British-born Australian writer, editor, advertising executive, world war two veteran and merchant sailor.Page has lived in Australia since 1953. He has written many books on the development of Australia and South Australia, and histories of some Australian institutions - Adelaide Steamship Company, Royal Flying Doctor Service and South Australian fire services. To show his versatility he has also written eight novels, as well as books on architecture, fantasy and dogs.

Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2004. Biography. Used. Patricia Page experienced an English childhood in Fiji during the war years and kept an extensive diary during this time. Looking back 50 years later, she writes honestly and openly about the racial compartmentalisation that was colonial Fiji and revisits the streets that she knew so intimately.

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Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. Used. An ingeniously plotted, beautifully written and hugely enjoyable book that raises tricky questions about... our need for heroes the price of personal compromise.'"?The Daily Telegraph For the first time since his much-beloved tale Hemingway's Chair was published in 1998, Michael Palin pens a new novel featuring the warm and witty story of an everyman, a tantalizing offer, a journey to India, and the search for the truth. Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. A professional writer of some repute, he has reached the age of fifty-six with nothing resembling the success of his two great literary heroes, George Orwell and Albert Camus. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime?to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a widely respected and highly influential activist and humanitarian?he seizes the chance to write something meaningful. His search to find out the real story behind the legend takes Mabbut to the lush landscapes and… Read More

Crawley, W.A: Methuen, 1995. Used. Monty Python's Flying Circus" alumnus Michael Palin turns his hand to writing fiction. A mild-mannered English postmaster--who is obsessed with Hemingway--must decide whether to drift along passively or fight for what he believes in, after his small village postal office is privatized.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Hardcover. Used. Sahara is the book that Michael Palin wrote to accompany the BBC television documentary series Sahara with Michael Palin. This book, like the other books that Palin wrote following each of his seven trips for the BBC, consists both of his text and of many photographs to illustrate the trip. All of the pictures in this book were taken by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was part of the team who did the trip.

PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE London: Penguin, 1990. Used. An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary--a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century -- London itself."You read the first page and down you wonderfully fall, into a long, large, wide world of Fiction."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Used. Silent House is Orhan Pamuk's second novel published after Cevdet Bey and His Sons. The novel tells the story of a week in which three siblings go to visit their grandmother in Cennethisar, a small town near Istanbul.

London: Faber, 2006. Used. The Black Book is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. It was published in Turkish in 1990 and first translated by G?neli G?n and published in English in 1994. In 2006, it was translated into English again by Maureen Freely.

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Used. An irresistible love story: Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. Set in Istanbul between 1975 and today, The Museum of Innocence tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. For the past ten years, Pamuk has been setting up a museum in the house in which his hero's Fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The museum will be called The Museum of Innocence and it opens in 2010.

Penguin Random House, 2015. Used. A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul.In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. He observes many different kinds of people thronging the streets, he watches most of the city get demolished and re-built, and he sees migrants from Anatolia making a fortune; at the same time, he witnesses all of the transformative moments, political clashes, and military coups that shape the country. He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else - the source of that strangeness in his mind. But he never stops selling boza during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really is.What matters more in love: what we wish for, or what our fate has in store? Do… Read More

Faber and Faber, 2002. Used. At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn?t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery?or crime? ?lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.

London: Faber and Faber, 2010. Used. Snow is a postmodern novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. Published in Turkish in 2002, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely and published in 2004. The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and a deep sympathy with its characters.

London: angus and robertson, 1953. Hardcover. Used.HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION 1953.NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONS HOWEVER SMALL TEARS ON EDGES OF DUST JACKET AND PAGES SLIGHTLY DISCOLOURED DUE TO AGE AND APPEARS TO BE MISSING A PAGE
Roses were rarely seen at the old Jerusalem hotel. Life is hard, and for some of the tenants a luxury might be warm feet, cat's meat stew or a five-bob coat from a jumble sale. In A Power of Roses, Ruth Park draws vivid portraits of Miriam, the tough adolescent heroine; her Uncle Puss, a canny old Irishman; and a colourful assortment of inhabitants who live in the hotel's damp, rat-infested rooms.

London: Penguin Books Australia, 1988. Used. Three of Ruth Park's best loved books are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years."--Back cover.

London: Viking, 1997. Hardcover/Award Winner. Used. A Fence Around the Cuckoo was a completely charming and witty autobiography, albeit the first part, by Ruth Park. It tells of her upbringing in New Zealand as the daughter of poor but upstanding folks, though the extremely difficult times of the Great Depression and exposure to harsh and difficult living conditions.