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Walking the Camino: Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago by KEVIN Tony
$26.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63- year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long walk - it was a pilgrimage. From Granada, in the southeast, to Santiago de Compostela, in the far n ...Show more
The Shark Net - United by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more
The Help (Film Tie-in) by Kathryn Stockett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeent ...Show more
Night by Elie Wiesel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity - the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, ...Show more
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she l ...Show more
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two year ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
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 different families leave the ...Show more
Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
$17.95 AUD
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 the seed was planted . . .I began to thin ...Show more
The Green Road by Anne Enright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the Booker Award-winning bestselling author of The Gathering, The Green Road is Anne Enright's virtuoso new novel, her most compelling and powerful to date A darkly glinting novel set mainly in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishnes ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tric ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"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 to admit his guilt, but refu ...Show more
Catch-22 (50th Anniversary edition) by Joseph Heller
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
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. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more