All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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Category: Literary
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war?. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier? experiencing th ...Show more
Paris Wife by Paula McLain
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Category: Literary
"A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s--as a wife and as one's own woman."--Entertainment Weekly A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: ...Show more
Rules of Civility: The stunning debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
An elegant and captivating debut novel, Aom Towles' Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent, a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Literary | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t ...Show more
Last Orders by Graham Swift
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Category: Literary
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, "Last Orders" is ...Show more
Sarah's Key: From Paris to Auschwitz, one girl's journey to find her brother by Tatiana De Rosnay
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Released in 2010 as a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promise ...Show more
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he struggles with the intensity of the heat, dirt and dust, and with the secrets this country hides. Despite the gulf of experience and understanding between them, Adrian finds unexpected frie ...Show more
Daniel Martin by John Fowles
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Category: Literary
Set internationally and spanning three decades, "Daniel Martin" is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travel ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 by Adolfo Aranjuez
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Now in its fifth edition, Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. This year, Melbourne Books is again expanding the project, increasing the number of featured pieces to over fifty. AWAW ...Show more
Stay Where You are and Then Leave by John Boyne
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Category: Literary
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King ...Show more
The Secret Maker of the World by Abbas El-Zein
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Category: Literary
A powerful collection of fiction that lingers long after the last word
Shadow Of The Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
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Category: Literary
Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border.