A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Praised as a "master storyteller" (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his "flawless use of language" (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is ...Show more
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
New York Times bestselling author Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968, the year of the Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to ...Show more
The Miller's Dance: A Novel of Cornwall, 1812-1813 (#9 Poldark) by Graham Winston
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark
Cornwall 1812. At Nampara, the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising - and worrying - news. And Clowance, newly returned from her London triumphs, finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings ...Show more
Heaven s Net Is Wide (#5 Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Tales of the Otori
Heaven's Net is Wide is the Prologue in the five-part Tales of the Otori series. More than four million copies have been sold in over 36 countries.'The best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman' Independent On Sunday (UK) Lord Shigeru, heir to the Ot ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees: Reese's Pick by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'NEIL GAIMAN'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONEIn his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years ...Show more
The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?'Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologi ...Show more
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The MaddAddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some r ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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Category: Contemporary
"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae ...Show more
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more