Dancing Home by Paul Collis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: David Unaipon Award Winners Ser.
'When he was in jail, he'd begun to prepare himself for the fight of his life, a showdown with the policeman, McWilliamsa In Dubbo, he reckoned, he'd face life with death, and see who blinked first.' Blackie and Rips are fresh out of prison when they set off on a road trip back to Wiradjuri country with ...Show more
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of ...Show more
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Now a major motion picture- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, ...Show more
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmouli ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Swif ...Show more
The Fiery Cross (Outlander #5) by Diana Gabaldon
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: good
This is the fifth novel in the bestselling outlander series - soon to be a major new TV series. 1771: the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other. Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a ...Show more
The Annotated Alice - The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll, this work looks at Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and focuses on topics ranging from Alice's influence on the Beat poet, Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad.
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is a masterful study of obsession. This "Penguin Classics" edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. 'Call me Ishmael.' So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest wo ...Show more
Mad about the Boy by Maggie Alderson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Of all the nightmare options that passed through Antonia Heaveringham's head when her husband Hugo uttered the words, "I've got something to tell you..." a coming-out speech never figured. Suddenly alone in their adopted home of Sydney, with no friends save for her six-year-old son Tom and a pair of jew ...Show more
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"A book you won't be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that's multi-continental, richly detailed and elegantly crafted." --Cur ...Show more