Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the bestselling author of The Reader, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises. A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; ...Show more
Life of Pi [Film Tie-in] by Yann Martel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
One boy, one boat, one tiger ... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
$23.95 AUD
Category: Literary
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
Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Literary | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library edition As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Buil ...Show more
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
'Our contemporary master Stewart O'Nan - the king of the quotidian - has changed his brush stroke and given us a picture of another American master, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the last years of his life. This is an amazing book, by one great writer about another, just an amazement.' --Elizabeth Strout, aut ...Show more
You Lose These and Other Stories by Goldie Goldbloom
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Category: Literary
What you staring at?' he said, looking quickly into the rearview and touching the place his eyebrow might have been. 'You're not exactly Marilyn Monroe yerself.' Short stories from Goldie Goldbloom. Dark. Delicious. Superb.
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: near fine
The groundbreaking debut novel from Maggie O'Farrell, AFTER YOU'D GONE is a stunning, best-selling story of wrenching love and grief. A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Wa ...Show more
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Literary | Series: Classics Ser.
In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarcerat ...Show more
The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam
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Category: Literary
A Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Best Book of the Year Growing up as brothers in a small town in Pakistan, Jeo and Mikal were inseparable; however as adults their paths have diverged sharply. Jeo is newly married and a dedicated medical student, while Mikal, in love with a woman he can't have, has ado ...Show more
The Passion According to G.H by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Her irresistibl ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Literary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
The People on Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
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Category: Literary
It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, Old Filth, will ...Show more