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An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
$16.99 AUD
Category: 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
Armadillo by William Boyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've prom ...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
Restless by William Boyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
1969. A veteran secret agent. A single mission. A licence to kill. James Bond returns.
Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: James Bond | Reading Level: very good
1969. A veteran secret agent. A single mission. A licence to kill. James Bond returns.
Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the Sunday Times Bestseller. It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local ...Show more
Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
1969. A veteran secret agent. A single mission. A licence to kill. James Bond returns.
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
Trio by William Boyd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A 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 making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, with ...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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