Dinner with the Dissidents by John Tesarsch
$29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
It is 1970, and cracks are appearing in the Soviet Union as it struggles to quell dissident voices. Censored at home, the Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn is lauded in the West for exposing the underbelly of communism, and is rumoured to be writing his most damaging work yet. The Kremlin is worried ...Show more
The Ancestor Game: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1993 by Alex Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
The best-selling, 1993 Miles Franklin Award-winning novel from one of Australia's foremost literary writers.
The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell
$29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
Two summers, decades apart.Two women whose lives are forever entwined.And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both.At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beaut ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$34.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and In a German Pension. Virginia Woo ...Show more
Murder Mile (#4 Tennison) by Lynda La Plante
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
Prime Suspect meets Ashes to Ashes as we see Jane Tennison starting out on her police career . The fourth in the bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers, MURDER MILE is set at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent'. Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer? February, 1979, 'The Winter of Discontent'. E ...Show more
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Named one of the Best Books of 2017 by NPR The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller--as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark--involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice ...Show more
The Iliad (Penguin Classic) by Homer (Translated by Rieu)
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p ...Show more
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
$23.00 AUD
Category: FICTION
Stella Prize 2019 Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon. Telling the story of a splintered family, a mother who is unlike any other, and her daughters who have no choice but to come to the rescue, The Erratics has the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device. ...Show more
The Lily in the Snow (#3 Miss Lily Book) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Miss Lily Ser.