Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONJack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$24.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
Zac & Mia by A. J. Betts
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: From 14
A moving story about love and hope found in the most unexpected of places Mia’s not your typical hospital patient. Her next-door neighbor, Zac, can hear her fighting with her mom and the nurses through their shared wall and he wishes she’d get over herself. But soon they are trading messages that evolv ...Show more
Julia and the Shark (HB) by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Reading Level: near fine
A captivating, powerful and luminous story from a bestselling, award-winning author about a mother, a daughter and the great Greenland shark. Wrapped up in mesmerising illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback, this is a perfect gift for the holiday season, for 9+ fans of Philip Pullman, David Al ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wild ...Show more
The Wizards of Once (#1) by Cressida Cowell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Wizards of Once | Reading Level: very good
The instant New York Times and International Bestseller In the first book of a new series by the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon, the warring worlds of Wizards and Warriors collide in a thrilling and enchanting adventure. Once there were Wizards, who were Magic, and Warriors, who were not ...Show more
Willow Moss and the Lost Day (#1 Starfell) by Dominique Valente
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Starfell | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Willow Moss, the youngest and least powerful sister in a family of witches, has a magical ability for finding lost things - like keys, or socks, or wooden teeth. Useful, but not exactly exciting . . . Then the most powerful witch in the world of Starfell turns up at Willow's door and asks for her help. ...Show more
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The instant New York Times bestseller and celebrated family love story heralded as "perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt" (People).If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical wom ...Show more