The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$9.95 AUD
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
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac & William Burroughs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arres ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
$9.95 AUD
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
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Gina Davies, aka The Doll, is a 26-year-old pole dancer at the Chairman's Lounge in Sydney's Kings Cross. She's a flawed woman, racist, obsessed with money, who finds her life suddenly being destroyed by the things she has up until that moment most firmly believed in.The evening of the Mardi Gras, 2007. ...Show more
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has onl ...Show more
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12) by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 12 | Reading Level: very good
As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles o ...Show more
Aleph by Paulo Coelho
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The all-new format of ALEPH, the third sacred journey undertaken by Paulo Coelho, following on from BRIDA and THE PILGRIMAGE. 'Poetic and uplifting' GRAZIA In his most personal novel to date, Paulo Coelho confronts a grave crisis of faith. On a journey to revitalise his energy and passion he meets Hila ...Show more
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE ROAD - but with hope. Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for short journeys, and saves his remaining ...Show more
Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the bestselling author of The Reader, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises. A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; ...Show more
Life of Pi [Film Tie-in] by Yann Martel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
One boy, one boat, one tiger ... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me - please take it on faith - this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without ...Show more
Maeve Binchy's Treasury: Over 40 Heartwarming Stories by Maeve Binchy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Maeve Binchy is one of the world's best loved story tellers. This collection from Australia and around the world gives us stories that are sad and happy, thoughtful and humourous, but always abounding with the author's trademark generosity of spirit. Families, friends, lovers and the lonely, all are dra ...Show more