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
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
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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
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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
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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 Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the PENGUIN CLASSICS series, this is the story of Mr Pooter, an office clerk and upright family man in a dull 1880s suburb. His diary is a wonderful portrait of the class system and inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle classes. It contains all the original illustrations, a critical introducti ...Show more
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Literary | Series: Classics Ser.
In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarcerat ...Show more
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
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Category: Contemporary
An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and eager to imp ...Show more
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Contemporary
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
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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