jonathan cape australia (19 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Australian Edition. x, 189pp, index of titles and authors. Remainder dot by the spine foot. Papered boards in dust-jacket. Ruth Rendell has 'selected the best of writings which enter into the minds of murderers -- into the talk, imagination, dreams, boastings and remorse of people who have killed, in fiction and in fact'. Size: 8vo.

Softcover. Condition: Good. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just for another little while.The Gathering is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations - starting with the grandmother, Ada Merriman - showing how memories warp and family secrets fester. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all Anne Enright's work, fiction and non-fiction, this is a book of daring, wit and insight: her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction, and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. 261 pages. Tanning to pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9780224078740. Inventory No: 254228.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 591 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine (cover worn). No Jacket. Second Reprint, Australian Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Australian edition. Page edges lightly toned else fine in fine dw with a surface scratch on the rear panel. SIGNED by Rushdie on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Over the past few decades, 'investigative journalism' has come to mean the kind of brave reporting that exposes injustice, wrongdoing and, above all, the abuse of power. At a time when journalism is under attack perhaps as never before, this celebration of the very best of investigative journalism, and some of the greatest practitioners of the craft, could not be more timely. In selecting for this anthology articles, broadcasts and book extracts that have got behind the fa-ade of official silence to reveal important and disturbing truths, John Pilger is paying his own professional tribute to some of the men and women he most admires. Here are the famous muckrakers (Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre), as well as the less well known (Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima in September 1945; Israeli journalist Amira Hass, reporting from the Gaza Strip in the 1990s). Here, too, are the mavericks (the great German undercover reporter G-nter Wallraff; Jessica Mitford on 'The American Way of Death'). The book ranges from across many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years, from the scenes witnessed at the liberation of the death camp at Dachau in 1945, to the bloodshed caused by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Along the way it bears witness to epic injustices committed against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Palestine. John Pilger sets each piece of reporting in its context, often offering personal insights into the writer, and introduces the collection with a passionate essay arguing that the kind of journalism he celebrates here is being subverted by the very forces that ought to be its enemy. Taken as a whole, the book tells an extraordinary 'secret history' of the modern era, through the stories filed by some of its finest journalists. It is also a call to arms to journalists everywhere - before it is too late. 626 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Politics; Politics & Government; Media::Journalism. ISBN: 0224073796. ISBN/EAN: 9780224073790. Inventory No: 271202.

first australian edition [review copy] 340pp F (black cloth,review copy label to title page,publisher's flier loosely inserted) in F d/w.

first australian edition, super octavo black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, 372pp VG+ (light foxing and tanning to page edges, v sl wear to board extrems) in VG+ d/w (light wear to extrems, sl rubbing to covers).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1990 fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. Not price clipped. 282 pages with index. 4 Appendices. Map. Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1985 near fine hardback, page edges and page margins browned, in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 285 pages. Endpaper Maps.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. PRICE NOT CLIPPED. Dj lighlty chipped at tips.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing of 1st Edition. 298 pages includes index. Owner's name at front, otherwise appears unused.

first australian edition 198pp NF (black cloth,spine cracked at title) in NF d/w (v.sl.soiled).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Australasian Edition. Hardback. Laxdale Hall. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Slight browning to back D/J. Slightly sunned spine. Laxdale House is a large house in a remote parish of the West Highlands. It is big enough to accommodate not only the General and his eccentric daughter who live there, but such diverse visitors as Samuel Pettigrew M.P., who believes in Socialism Plus, and his charming wife whose demands on life are rather simpler; Olaf Swanson, a successful novelist who is a fugitive from some mysterious disaster; and the leanred Mr. Crantit who has translated a Greek tragedy that is to be performed in unusual circumstances. The people of Laxdale village are as robust of nature and individual in their habit as their neighbours in the Hall, and when the parish is invaded by a gang of poachers from the outer world the developing comedy is quickened by violence, and farce encroaches on the drama. 301 pp. Plastic protective covering. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. 85 pages. The cover has a bit of wear, with foxing and a few small scuffs. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. The title page has a gift inscription from a previous owner. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. Size: Medium (20 to 26cm). Item Type: Book. Binding is loosening but fully intact. Minor marks and wear to book and jacket. ISBN: 0730578119. ISBN/EAN: 9780730578116. *** WE POST TO AUSTRALIA,UK,IRELAND,CANADA,NEW ZEALAND,JAPAN & SINGAPORE ONLY ***.

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first australian edition inscribed by author 334pp ills.[b/w] NF (black cloth,minor shelf wear,author's inscr.to half-title verso) in NF d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled) scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Australian Edition. [4], 5-398 pp. "The latest in the series of books about our times which this political pilgrim began with Insanity Fair in 1938, this is the story of a journey of discovery, geographical, social and political, in America. Readers know it is Douglas Reed's theory that the war which started in 1914 still goes on, embroiling all the Western world in a grand design for the reshaping of the globe, the final failure or success of which will determine the ultimate shape of the Twentieth Century." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with respectful wear to publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt. Slight lean to spine. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating study. 20 x 14cm. Singerman 845.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Douglas Reed, Political Zionism, Soviet Communism, Organized Crime, United States, Politics, Conspiracy.