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Mockingbird (PB) by Tevis, Walter
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it a ...Show more
The Hustler by Walter Tevis; Perseus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance."-Time OutWhen it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first--and the best--novel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership and later an au ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama by Walter Tevis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discove ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (PB) by Walter Tevis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Series | Reading Level: very good
‘Superb’ - Time Out. ‘Mesmerizing’ - Newsweek. ‘Gripping’ - Financial Times. ‘Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years – for the pure pleasure and skill of it’ - Michael Ondaatje. ‘Don’t pick this up if you want a night’s sleep’ - The Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage at the ag ...Show more
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