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Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs by Seth Alexander Thevoz
36.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thevoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealin ...Show more
Broken Ground (Karen Pirie #5) by Val McDermid
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Number one bestseller and queen of crime Val McDermid returns with her most breathtakingly atmospheric and exhilarating novel yet. 'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right pla ...Show more
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION "Claire Oshetsky's novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying." --Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis Tiny is pregnant. Her hus ...Show more
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Delightful banter, hot romance and a love story that's worthy of the big screen' Kate Spencer, author of In a New York MinuteTen years later and she still has butterflies. But does he feel the same way?Then. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former classmates are nabbing high-p ...Show more
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, ...Show more
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE 'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own undervalued novels'D. J. TAYL ...Show more
No Country for Girls: The most original, high-octane thriller of the year by Emma Styles
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
GOLD. THEFT. MURDER.A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.'It's not exactly how I imagined the week starting. An accessory to murder. On the run in the victim's vehicle . . .'Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together f ...Show more
Out of Bounds (Karen Pirie #4) by Val McDermid
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen Pirie finds herself ...Show more
Past Lying (Karen Pirie Mystery #7) by Val McDermid
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University ...Show more
Past Lying: The twisty new Karen Pirie thriller, now a major ITV series by Val McDermid
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime. Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh Universit ...Show more
Still Life by Val McDermid
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'The bodies never stay buried forever...'On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to r ...Show more
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor
32.99 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Stunning. History at its very best.' James Holland The sacrifices that enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 are sacrosanct. The foundation of their eventual victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the river Vo ...Show more