Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage War
A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, t ...Show more
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
Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Teen
Remember daughter, the world is a lot bigger than anyone knows. There are things that science may never explain. Maybe some things that shouldn't be explained. Stacey and Laney are twins - mirror images of each other - and yet they're as different as the sun and moon. Stacey works hard at school, determ ...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
Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Magical Realism
'One of our finest storytellers' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent'Pure magic' M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts From Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree comes Deeplight - an underwater adventure as dangerous as the gods themselves . . .The gods of th ...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
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
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
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
No! Never! by Libby Hathorn, Lisa Hathorn-Jarman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A cautionary tale about a little girl who drives her parents up the wall when she starts answering 'No! Never!' to all their requests - and what happens when the tables are turned on her.There was a child,The sweetest ever,Until she learned these words:'NO! NEVER!'Georgie is a sweet little girl who alwa ...Show more
Relativity by Antonia Hayes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ethan is a bright young boy obsessed with physics and astronomy who lives with his mother, Claire. Claire has been a wonderful parent to Ethan, but he's becoming increasingly curious about his father's absence in his life, wanting to fill in the gaps. Claire's life is centred on Ethan; she is fiercely ...Show more