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Ancestry by Simon Mawer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the reality of the past and an exploration of that uncertain borderland which lies between fact and fiction. Using archive material Mawer has picked through the traces left behind by h ...Show more
Ancestry - A Novel by Simon Mawer
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... N ...Show more
Glass Room, The - Abacus 40th edition by Simon Mawer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary Ser.
A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House become ...Show more
Gospel of Judas by Simon Mawer
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A priest experiencing a crisis of faith -- and the married woman to whom he is attracted. A scroll newly discovered near Jerusalem that, if authentic, could open Christianity to a complete reinterpretation. A tragic love affair unfolding in Fascist-dominated Rome during World War II. These are the eleme ...Show more
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Like his great-great-great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But for Benedict the mission is particularly urgent and personal, for his is afflicted by achondroplasia. He is a dwarf. When a chance meeting leads him to the accep ...Show more
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The issue of genetic engineering and the possibility of using it to seek revenge and play God are the theme of this book that uses a dwarf called Lambert, a connection to Mendel, and an unrequited love affair to weave a 21st century fable.
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New York Times bestselling author Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968, the year of the Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Marian Sutro Ser.
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluen ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Simon Mawer
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluen ...Show more
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House beco ...Show more
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
A "New York Times" Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House beco ...Show more
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is now back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. De-briefed by the same shadowy branch of the secret service that sent her to Paris to extract a French atomic scientist, Marian is now plunged into the cold war. Simon Mawer's s ...Show more