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Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more
Florence, A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: The Writer and the City | Reading Level: very good
Novelist David Leavitt joins Edmund White and Peter Carey in the acclaimed The Writer and the City series with a scintillating view of Italy's most adored city. Florence is the only European city I can think of whose most famous citizens, at least in the last 150 years or so, have all been foreigners ...Show more
Shelter in Place by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet." -Rachel Cusk "A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel about all the bewildering ways we seek solace from the people and things that surround us." - Jenny Offill David Leavitt returns with his signature "coolly ele ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt
$27.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bl ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much : Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, th ...Show more
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe - a city filled with spies, crowned heads and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the S. S. Manhattan, two couples meet: P ...Show more
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