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Alexandria by Paul Kingsnorth
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' Telegraph 'Beckett doing Beowulf.' London Review of Books A small religious community is living in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world's last human survivors. Now, they find themselves stalked by a force that dr ...Show more
Alexandria by Paul Kingsnorth
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The visionary final novel in Paul Kingsnorth's iconic Buckmaster Trilogy - a timely and seminal portrait of climate apocalypse. 'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' - Telegraph 'Beckett doing Beowulf.' - London Review of Books One thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a s ...Show more
Alexandria 8 Copy Pack by Edmund Richardson
239.92 AUD
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Alexandria 8 x 9781526603814 Copy Pack
Alexandria: A History and Guide by E. M. Forster
29.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
In the autumn of 1915, in a "slightly heroic mood," E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring "the magic, antiquity and complexity" of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a "funk-hole." With a ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
49.99 AUD
Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Finding himself in Alexandria in the winter of 2010, Peter Stothard, editor of the TLS and former editor of The Times, is forced to contemplate his past in circumstances he does not expect. The aftermath of a bombing and the onset of the Arab Spring place obstacles in his plans to complete a long-delaye ...Show more
Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard
39.99 AUD
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Category: History
When Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself stranded in Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South Africa has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation on the brink of revolution. Guided by two native Egyptians, Stothard traces his own life-long inte ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City by Edmund Richardson
22.99 AUD
Category: History
'This is a jewel of a book' - SUNDAY TIMES'One of the great stories of archaeology, exploration and espionage' - William Dalrymple'Immensely enjoyable' - BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE____________________________________For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and Wes ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains by Edmund Richardson
29.99 AUD
Category: History
'Full, extraordinary, heart-breaking ... utterly brilliant' - William Dalrymple 'Impressive ... Masson has at last found the intrepid biographer he has so long deserved' - John Keay For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 18 ...Show more
Alexandrian Summer by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Alexandria, a lush paradise by the sea, comes to antic, full-bodied life ...Gormezano Goren's characters are vividly depicted as they grow up or grow older in a city of conflicting loyalties, riven by resentment, ready to revolt. Readers will be transported."--Publishers Weekly "A gifted writer ...Gor ...Show more
Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar by Alexei Sayle
17.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Alexei Sayle reveals his true vocation: proprietor of an imaginary sandwich shop. Blending politics, comedy, philosophy and memoir, this is the Godfather of Alternative Comedy at his most anarchic and irresistibly entertaining Alexei Sayle has been telling people he runs a sandwich bar on Gray's Inn Roa ...Show more
Alexey Brodovitch - Astonish Me by Katy Wan (Editor); Vince Aletti (Contribution by); David Campany (Contribution by)
82.95 AUD
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Reassessing the career of the hugely influential Harper's Bazaar art director, who changed the course of twentieth-century American photography and graphic design This lavishly illustrated volume explores the influence and significance of the Russian-born photographer, designer, and instructor Alexey B ...Show more