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Written Lives by Javier Marias
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo o ...Show more
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream by Javier Marias
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it' Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying brutality in a night-club, he finds himself ...Show more
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marias
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scen ...Show more
Youth by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Unable to stay on to high school, Tove starts her first job (which lasts only one day) and soon embarks on a varied and chequered career: as au pair, cleaner, stock-room assistant and office worker. But Tove is hungry, for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As she navigates exploitative bosses, u ...Show more