The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...Show more
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The writing glows with emotional intelligence. This atmospheric debut...had me sniffing copiously' Daily MailIN WARTIME, SURVIVAL IS AS MUCH ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AS IT IS ABOUT COURAGE...Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury change is afoot. Hearts are breaking as sons and husbands leave to fight, ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The Woman in Whitefamously opens with Walter Hartright's ...Show more
Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge", this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Late one summer evening, Wilberforce - rich, young, and work-obsessed - makes a detour on his way home to the vast undercroft of Caerlyon Hall, and the domain of Francis Black, a place where wine, hospitality and affection flow freely. Through Francis, Wilberforce is initiated into a life rich in the pr ...Show more
Peter Pan (Puffin Clothbound Classics) by J. M. Barrie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: 10-13
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell lead the three Darling children over the rooftops of London and away to Neverland - the island where the lost boys play. Magic and mischief is in the air but if villainous Captain Hook has his way, before long someone will be swimming with the crocodiles...
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology. Her perception of ...Show more
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
This months-long New York Times bestseller is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page," (O, The Oprah Magazine). AFTER FOUR HARROWING YEARS ON THE WESTERN Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janu ...Show more
Stark by Ben Elton
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying.Deep in Western Australia where the Aboriginals used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot is taking shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent- a pommie ...Show more
Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE SICK BAG SONG chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and road journal. Drawing inspiration from Leonard Cohen, John Berryman, Patti Smith, Sharon O ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Fallada Collection | Reading Level: General Adult
Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler's war. Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and 'moderate pessimist', lives in constant fear. By night, he i ...Show more