Factory 19 by Dennis Glover
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022- a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery ...Show more
Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
"Cat's Eye" is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronoto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of fr ...Show more
A Town Like Alice: (Vintage Classics Shute Series) by Nevil Shute
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
This title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that l ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm; Jack Zipes (Introduction by, Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JACK ZIPES. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a m ...Show more
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraor ...Show more
Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'That most rare and coveted of literary feats: a popular novel of serious merit, a bestseller that will also endure.' Observer 'Triumph ... the sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending.' The Sunday Times 'Pitch perfect ... Exquisite ... Terrific ... Ver ...Show more
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are in a state of unrest. Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mo ...Show more
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A. J. Mackinnon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand - a year later I had reached Romania and was still going . . . ' Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an am ...Show more
The Trespassers by Meg Mundell
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Winner of the Davitt Award for Adult Crime 2020 Fleeing their pandemic-stricken homelands, a shipload of migrant workers departs the UK, dreaming of a fresh start in prosperous Australia. For nine-year-old Cleary Sullivan, deaf for three years, the journey promises adventure and new friendships; for ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful ...Show more
Room for a Stranger (C-format) by Melanie Cheng
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
By the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might b ...Show more