Hamish hamilton penguin australia (39 risultati)

Condizione: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Hardcover. An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new - always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us apart. In Eyrie, Winton crafts the story of Tom Keely, a man struggling to accomplish good in an utterly fallen world. Once an ambitious, altruistic environmentalist, Keely now finds himself broke, embroiled in scandal, and struggling to piece together some semblance of a life. From the heights of his urban high-rise apartment, he surveys the wreckage of his life and the world he's tumbled out of love with. Just before he descends completely into pills and sorrow, a woman from his past and her preternatural child appear, perched on the edge of disaster, desperate for help. When you're fighting to keep your head above water, how can you save someone else from drowning? As Keely slips into a nightmarish world of con artists, drug dealers, petty violence, and extortion, Winton confronts the cost of benevolence and creates a landscape of uncertainty. Eyrie is a thrilling and vertigo-inducing morality tale, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. When the rebels come to Obinna's village, they do more than wreak terror for one night. Lining the children up in the middle of the village, they measure them against the height of an AK-47. Those who are shorter than the gun are left behind. Those who are taller are taken. Obinna and his older brother Akot find themselves the rebel army's newest recruits. But while Akot almost willingly surrenders to the training, Obinna resists, determined not to be warped by the revolution's slogans and violence. In the face of his vicious captain's determination to break him, Obinna finds help in a soldier called Priest, and in the power of his own dreams. Beneath the Darkening Sky describes a life unimaginably different from our own, but one that is the experience of tens of thousands of child soldiers. Uncompromising, vivid and raw, it is an astonishing portrait of a mind trying to make sense of a senseless world. Majok Tulba himself was shorter than the AK-47, and came to Australia from South Sudan as a refugee in 2001. This is the story of what might have happened to him had he been an inch taller.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The Australian (and true first) edition. Short-listed for the Booker Prize.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good.

Secondhand, Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher whose job it is to call out the turns, the grids, the creek crossings on a map that will finally remove them, without warning, from the lily-white Australia they know so well. This thrilling, high-speed story starts in one way and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, the more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner, even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. Set in the 1950s amid the consequences of the age of empires, this brilliantly vivid and lively novel reminds us how Europeans took possession of a timeless culture - the high purpose they invented and the crimes they committed along the way. Peter Carey has twice won the Booker Prize for his explorations of Australian history. A Long Way from Home is his late-style masterpiece. Secondhand, Paperback. …

Hardback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Tim Winton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The highly anticipated new novel from Tim Winton, Eyrie is a heart-stopping, groundbreaking novel for our times - funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting. Tom Keely's reputation is in ruins. And that's the upside. Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he's retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the good fight, and well past caring. But even in his seedy flat, ducking the neighbours, he's not safe from entanglement. All it takes is an awkward encounter in the lobby. A woman from his past, a boy the likes of which he's never met before. Two strangers leading a life beyond his experience and into whose orbit he falls despite himself. What follows is a heart-stopping, groundbreaking novel for our times - funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting. Inhabited by unforgettable characters, Eyrie asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing. Longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award 'From the opening pages. You know you are in the hands of a master.'Weekend Australian. Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Very Fine original cloth, in Fine DW.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good - Some Wear. A heavy book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. First Australian edition. 315 pages. The spine is cracked along the preliminaries, the tow pages with reviews of the book and again at the verso of the back end paper. This appears to be a publisher's fault and the binding remains solid. The paper is very lightly tanned, else a clean, unmarked copy. "The Boat will take you everywhere. In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each story uncovers a raw human truth. Each story is absorbing and fully realised as a novel. Together, they make up a collection of astonishing diversity and achievement. 'Nam Le is extraordinary, a writer who will be heard. The Boat will be read for as long as people read books. Its vision and its power are timeless.' - Mary Gaitskill 'Wonderful stories that snarl and pant cross our crazed world. and extraordinary performance. Nam Le is a heartbreaker, not easily forgotten.' - Junot Diaz 'A fearless new Australian voice that accepts no geographical limits; these are stories of leaping power and the most breathtaking grace and intimacy.' - Helen Garner ".…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Paperback: Good Condition. No Jacket. Pages Clean And Unmarked. Shows Signs Of Aging Such As Tanning And Minimal Foxing To Top Leaf-Edges. Binding Warped But Tight And Secure. Mug Stains On Cover But Remains Vibrant And Legible. Creased Spine. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition. Please Contact Us For Pictures If Desired.…

8vo, xviii + 315pp. Original boards in b/w pictorial dustwrapper, very slightly rubbed. b/w photographic illustrations, in addition to b/w and full-colour reproductions and photographic illustrations on plates. A near-fine to fine copy. First edition.

Octavo, viii+214pp, original illustrated boards ( no dustwrapper issued)., a very good copy. First edition. Portrait of New York by the Australian writer long resident in that city.

Encuadernacion De Tapa Blanda. Condizione: Bien. Translated from the french by Robert Brain. Here is a new Maigret indeed- young, recently wedded, and fresh to his job. It was always known that he started as secretary to the superintendent in a local Paris police station. In this book Simenon, with his usual mastery of period and setting, tells how Maigret got his first chance, and alows us some touching glimpses of the newly-wed Madame Maigret.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine in Mylar Sleeve. First Edition. This edition first published by Penguin Group (Australia) 2008. Dust jacket as new, appears unread.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1989 SIGNED by Tim Winton near fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper, light surface scratches to rear cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 424 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

Octavo, vi+268pp, original illustrated wrappers, minor creasing, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition.Signed by author.

Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 308 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 2018 SIGNED by Tim Winton near fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper, rear inside flap creased. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 267 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

Trade Paperback (23cm X 15cm). Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 451pp incl several in-text b&w photos. V/light wear only. The spine is uncreased and the binding is firm.

Australian, reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 265 pp. Alain de Botton provides personal and witty discussion of some common human concerns, according to six philosophers: Socrates on unpopularity, Epicurus on not having enough money, Seneca on frustration, Montaigne on inadequacy, Schopenhauer on having a broken heart, and Nietzsche on difficulties. This book inspired the Channel 4 TV series 'Philosophy'. The bestselling author is a director of philosophy at London University. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Australian edition, first printing (first impression) with a full number line beginning with [1] on the copyright page in a near fine Dust Jacket. Unread copy with unmarked pages. SIGNED by Tim Winton to the title page. Signed by Author(s).…

8vo. 276pp. B/w map. Original wrappers, a fine copy. . First edition. Signed copy.

Paperback, 15.5x23.25cm, 254pp. Good condition. General wear and creases. Yellowed page edges. Signed at half-title. ISBN: 9780670078189.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 'Listen to me,' my mother says. 'They've let off an atom bomb today. Right here in W.A. Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, and I want you at home.'In the sleepy and conservative 1950s the British began a series of nuclear tests in the Montebello archipelago off the west coast of Australia. Even today, few people know about the three huge atom bombs that were detonated there, but they lodged in the consciousness of the young Robert Drewe and would linger with him for years to come.In this moving sequel to The Shark Net, and with his characteristic frankness, humour and cinematic imagery, Drewe travels to the Montebellos to visit the territory that has held his imagination since childhood. He soon finds himself overtaken by memories and reflections on his own 'islomania'. In the aftermath of both man-made and natural events that have left a permanent mark on the Australian landscape and psyche â" from nuclear tests and the mining boom to shark attacks along the coast â" Drewe examines how comfortable and familiar terrain can quickly become a site of danger, and how regeneration and love can emerge from chaos and loss.'[Montebello] has this wonderfully novelistic flow that draws you back to another time. William Yeoman, West Australian'Superb writing and skilful interweaving of the different strands in this book make it a pleasure to read.' Lisa Hill, ANZ LitLovers'Creating . a complex picture out of discrete though related narrative chunks .Montebello is a fragmentary book but a perfectly integrated work of art. Drewe's literary instincts are as impeccable as his ear for the English language is unfaltering, and his latest memoir has all the more force for being set down with such a delicate hand.' Richard King, Weekend Australian'This is a splendid memoir with many moods â" delicate, tough, ironic, compassionate â" that are beautifully controlled and paced.' Brian Matthews, ABRDrewe, Robert, 1943- | Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography. | Western Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1945- | Western Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century. | Australian291 p. ; 23 cm. #081221/040923/111224/070725 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condizione: FINE. BIOGRAPHYÂAustraliana x, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations and portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm. First Edition. #091024Before I ForgetÂis the long-awaited memoir from Professor Geoffrey Blainey â" Australiaâs most significant and popular historian â" that tells the story of the first forty years of his life, from his childhood to his career as historian and writer.Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a âLiving Treasureâ, inÂBefore I ForgetÂGeoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha, Geelong to Ballarat. From a young age these places ignited for Blainey a great affection for the Australian landscape, and a deep curiosity in Australiaâs history. He longed to travel, and would climb atop the roof of their home to stare out at the Great Dividing Range and imagine the world beyond.His mother created gardens wherever they went and had literary ambitions of her own; his father spent more on books than he could ever afford, and the library travelled with the family. Blaineyâs devotion to the Geelong Football Club began in Newtown from where heâd watch his team play at Corio, and as a newsboy he developed an early interest in current affairs, following the dramas and triumphs of the Second World War and the political careers of local identities John Curtin and Robert Menzies. With a burning desire to see Sydney but barely a penny to his name, he hitched there with a schoolfriend to see the harbour that greeted the First Fleet, and visited the national theatre of Parliament House on the way home to see Billy Hughes, JT Lang, Arty Fadden, Arthur Calwell, Enid Lyons and hero Ben Chifley in action.The course of Blaineyâs life changed when he was awarded a scholarship to board at Wesley College in Melbourne â" an opportunity that instilled in him a great love of learning, under the tutelage of a group of inspiring teachers. This flourished further at the University of Melbourne, first as a wide-eyed student at Queenâs Collage, where he was lectured by Manning Clarke, and later as a professor of history. Later he and Manning Clarke became great friends, both sitting on the Whitlam Governmentâs new Literature Board. Hours spent at Melbourneâs State Library as a student poring over the countryâs old newspapers cemented his calling to become a professional historian. Like Clarke Blainey has always been compelled to visit the places of our historical interest, including places of archaeological and Indigenous significance. Now the author of over forty books, Geoffrey Blainey claims he has discovered Australiaâs history his own way â" and is still learning.Warm, insightful and lyrically written,ÂBefore I ForgetÂrecounts the experiences and influences that have shaped the astonishing mind of Australiaâs most loved historian. But in this book Blainey has given us something more â" a fascinating and affectionate social history in and of itself. Blainey, Geoffrey, 1930- Historians -- Australia -- Biography Authors -- Biography Australia -- Social conditions Australian Autobiographies Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Hardback, 16x22.5cm, 267pp. Very good condition (light wear and scuff mark) in very good dustwrapper (light edge wear). ISBN: 9780143786115.

Paperback, 15.5x23cm, 339pp. Very good condition. General light wear. Tanned page edges. ISBN: 9780241144855.