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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn't know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as 'the Father of Tasmania', or that ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wante ...Show more
Oddfellows by Nicholas Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and seven wounded. It was the annual picnic day in Broken Hill and a thousand citizens were dressed for fun w ...Show more
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. 'A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival, no ...Show more
Priscilla : The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. "A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival ...Show more
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose own life has been mar ...Show more
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
$29.99 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
London, early May 1940- Britain is on the brink of war and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over at the helm, but in SIX MINUTES IN MAY Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a d ...Show more
Stories from Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the little-known history of horrifying events that occurred on 1 January 1915 in the Australian out ...Show more
The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For readers of William Boyd and John le Carre, an exhilarating literary thriller about the hunt for a missing terrorist in South America.From the acclaimed author of The Sandpit, an exhilarating literary thriller about the hunt for a missing terrorist in South America.This novel explores one of the most ...Show more
The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'A remarkable contemporary thriller - with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it - but also a profound and compelling investigation of a hugely complex human predicament. Brilliantly observed, captivatingly written, grippingly narrated - a triumph' - William Boyd When John Dyer returns to Oxfor ...Show more
The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A sophisticated thriller about a missing nuclear scientist - perfect for fans of Robert Harris, William Boyd and Charles Cumming'A remarkable contemporary thriller... A triumph' WILLIAM BOYDA journalist becomes embroiled in a world of secrets and paranoia when a nuclear scientist goes missing.When John ...Show more
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