Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
In masterful prose, the author of SURRENDER tells a quiet but powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence. (Ages 14 and up) Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she ...Show more
The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Tie-in edition with the film adaptation of the global bestseller, The Light Between Oceans, one of the most successful Australian novels of recent years. Produced by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and directed by Derek Cianfrance, the highly anticipated film stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and ...Show more
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road "accident" and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better.
The Pomodoro Technique - Do More and Have Fun with Time Management by Francesco Cirillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
Available in bookshops for the first time, the internationally acclaimed time management system that has been used by millions, written by Francesco Cirillo, creator of the Pomodoro Technique. We all face the same problem: we're constantly busy but we never seem to get anything done. We know we should ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the c ...Show more
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that' This is the story o ...Show more
Think and Grow Rich: The Master Mind Volume by Napoleon Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This book contains money-making secrets that can change your life. Think and Grow Rich, based on the author's famed Law of Success, represents the distilled wisdom of distinguished men of great wealth and achievement. Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success was the direct inspiration for this book. ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
$23.95 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting ...Show more
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, Kingsley Amis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad'. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full ...Show more
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
Soon to be a major film starring Ladybird's Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan and Game of Thrones's Alfie Allen as John Kite The phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback! My name's Johanna Morrigan. I'm fourteen, and I've just decided to kill myself. ...Show more
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub ...Show more