The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: "Over To You", "Kiss Kiss", "Someone Like You", "Switch Bitch" and eight further stories: "The Umberella man"; "Mr Botibol"; "Vengeance in Mine inc"; "The Butler"; "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life"; "The Bookseller"; and, "The H ...Show more
Great Ideas: Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naught ...Show more
Those Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Family Baggage and The Alphabet Sisters comes a warm and captivating story of family secrets, traditions and ties. As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household with her young mother, four very different aunts and her eccentric grandfather. With ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless l ...Show more
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller 'A novel of breathtaking scope' Guardian 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration c ...Show more
The Pillars of the Earth (#1 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known ...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul ...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secr ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but ...Show more
Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted ...Show more
The People on Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, Old Filth, will ...Show more
Testimony by Anita Shreve
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
AT Avery Academy, a prestigious New England boarding school, the headmaster finds himself in possession of a videotape – a disaster in a small package. More shocking than the sexual acts recorded on the tape are the ages of the students. One girl is just fourteen. A Pandora’s box, the tape unleashes a s ...Show more
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Oprah's Book Choice 'Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ...She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.' These extraordinary stories centre on African conflicts as seen through the eyes of children and describes their resilienc ...Show more
Story Of O by Pauline Réage
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Story of O Ser.
The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of Grey. A beautiful young French woman, known only as 'O', is taken by her lover Rene to a splendid mansion near Paris. Here, she is initiated into an elite secret society, where she must learn to serve the sexual fantasies of Rene and his ...Show more