| Author: | Margaret Atwood |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Series: | The\Handmaid's Tale Ser. |
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function- to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . . .
| Author: | M. L. Stedman |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Reading Level: | good |
| Awards: | Indie Book Of The Year 2013 Longlisted Miles Franklin 2013 Longlisted for 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize) |
"Tie-in edition with the film adaptation of the global bestseller, The Light Between Oceans, one of the most successful Australian novels of recent years. Produced by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and directed by Derek Cianfrance, the highly anticipated film st... read more
| Author: | Joseph Heller |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Series: | Vintage Classics Promo |
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.
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| Author: | Harper Lee |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Series: | Vintage Classics Ser. |
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neig... read more
| Author: | Madeleine St John; Bruce Beresford (Introduction by) |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Series: | Text Classics Ser. |
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. G... read more
| Author: | Kate Atkinson |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. |
"WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD/i>What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?b>uring a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1... read more
| Author: | Tim Winton |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Reading Level: | very good |
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very... read more
| Author: | Kate Grenville |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Series: | Historical Trilogy Ser. |
| Awards: | Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Community Relations Commission Award 2006 and ABIA Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2006 and The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2006 and Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Awards: Christina Stead Award 2006. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 2006. |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until Will... read more
| Author: | David Michie |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
"'Oh How adorable I didn't know you had a cat ' she exclaimed.I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?'If only she could speak, ' continued the actress. 'I'm sure she'd have such wisdom to share.'And so th... read more
| Author: | John Fowles |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
"Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes... read more
| Author: | J. M. Coetzee |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Reading Level: | very good |
| Awards: | Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1999 and Commonwealth Writers Prize 2000. Shortlisted for WH Smith Literary Prize 2000 and W H Smith Annual Literary Award 2000 and Best of the Booker 2008. |
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing t... read more
| Author: | J. D. Salinger |
| Category: |
Penguin Spinner Fiction |
| Reading Level: | good |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. |
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone r... read more
