Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Ki ...Show more
The Power by Naomi Alderman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ...Show more
Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
This CBCA Honour Book from the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Lenny's Book of Everything is a magical tale about a girl who saves a dragon and rescues her family. How to save a dragon:1)Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors.2)Believe in everything.Pip ...Show more
Ridley Road by Jo Bloom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Summer, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. Alone in the world, she is looking for Jack Fox, a man she had a brief but intense love affair with some months before. But the only address she has for him leads to a ...Show more
Jakob's Colours by Lindsay Hawdon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This heartbreaking and tender novel will appeal to readers who loved Sophie's Choice, Schindler's Ark and The Book Thief. Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy - half Roma, half Yenish - runs, as he has been told to do. With shoes of sack cloth, still bloodstained with another's blood, a stone clutched in o ...Show more
Indigo Wilde and the Creatures at Jellybean Crescent: Book 1 by Pippa Curnick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers | Series: Indigo Wilde Ser.
Enter the colourful world of Indigo Wilde and the magical creatures who live at Jellybean Crescent. When a highly dangerous new arrival goes missing, the race is on to catch it before disaster strikes ... A wonderfully wild new series for readers of 7+ and fans of Pippi Longstocking and Amelia Fang. ...Show more
Tomorrow is a Brand-New Day by Davina Bell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
The follow-up to bestseller All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys. I know your world is feeling gray but it won't always be this way. And everyone alive can say they've felt the way you do today. We all have bad days, bad days do pass. From creative superstars Davina Bell and Allis ...Show more
Waiting for the Storks by Katrina Nannestad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in f ...Show more
The Imaginary by A. F. Harrold
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
An extraordinary tale of love, loss, imagination and not really being there, for fans of Roald Dahl and Neil Gaiman. Rudger is Amanda's best friend. He doesn't exist, but nobody's perfect. Only Amanda can see her imaginary friend - until the sinister Mr Bunting arrives at Amanda's door. Mr Bunting hunts ...Show more
The Story Thief by Graham Carter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Olive is a shy girl who prefers reading about adventures to having them herself. But when a mysterious figure steals all of the books in town, Olive decides to set out straight into an adventure of her own. The thief, meanwhile, doesn't quite know what to do with the stories he's stolen. Olive must trac ...Show more
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport by Anna Krien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Sex, celebrity, and power come together in a critically lauded, true-life courtroom drama centering on a rape case in the world of top-level sport. *Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014* 'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and w ...Show more
Anti Cool Girl by Rosie Waterland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Brutal, brave, hilarious - a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you. Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while ...Show more