Victory City by Salman Rushdie
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
An epic tale with a message for us all: our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever. This is Salman Rushdie at his best. A magical realist feminist tale in an historical setting that will stay with you long after you turn the final page. The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire ...Show more
Viking Fire by Justin Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The year is 1066, and a great general has won a crushing victory over the English just outside the gates of York. His name is Harald Hardrada, King of the Norse, and he is the most brilliant warrior of his age. Driven into exile as a callow youth, he travelled the known world, deposed emperors, punished ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more
Villa America by Liza Klaussmann
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and set forth to create a beautiful world. They aligh ...Show more
Village of the Lost Girls by Agustin Martinez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Reading Level: 2
A breath-taking missing persons thriller set under the menacing peaks of the Pyrenees. Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year-old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now, Ana reappears unexpe ...Show more
Villain by Justin Clemens
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
VILLAIN is a new collection by Justin Clemens. Invoking the spirit of celebrated French poet, vagabond and thief Francois Villon – some of whose ballads are translated here – these poems range from the violent and obscene to the lyrical and sublime, sometimes within a single verse. Villain unleashes a w ...Show more
Vindolanda (#1) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
AD 98: The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In twenty years' time, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous wall, but for now defences are weak, as tribes rebel against Roman rule, and local druids preach the fiery destruction of th ...Show more
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work, her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner ...Show more
Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Anne Tyler
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger siste ...Show more
Vintage Classics: The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancee, the cool and bea ...Show more
Vintage Harleys: The Best Classics from Around the World by Neale Brumby
$11.99 AUD
Category: General
The team at the world's leading Harley magazine, Heavy Duty, is pleased to present a selection of vintage and classic Harley-Davidsons featured in the magazine over the last five years. Collecting and restoring these bikes has become a popular pastime, with many bikes now commanding prices far beyond th ...Show more