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Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin," " Louis de Bernieres creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire ...Show more
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS by Louis de Bernieres
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
'Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides' It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanati ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more
Imagining Alexandria: Poems in Memory of C.P. Cavafy by Louis de Bernieres
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry was Louis de Bernieres' first literary love and Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction. De Bernieres was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, and ...Show more
Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. An entertaining novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is immine ...Show more
Notwithstanding by Louis De Bernieres
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage International
As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics a retired colonel who has eschewed clothes, a spiritualist living with the ghost of her husband, and a dog n ...Show more
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War, and its effects on their marriage, behind them.Back home in England, Rosie's sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches ...Show more
Station Jim by Louis De Bernieres
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A heartwarming tale about a mischievous dog who works on the steam trains. Beautifully illustrated, it is the perfect gift.One day in autumn, in the days when all the trains were driven by steam, a railway guard found something abandoned on a train...Mr Ginger Leghorn is used to collecting up umbrellas ...Show more
The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernieres
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Series: Daniel Pitt
Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War. Daniel Pitt has seen a lot of action. He was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the co ...Show more
The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernieres
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent, with their 'pals' the Pitt boys on one side of the fence and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood innocence and adventure are des ...Show more