Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Verne's classic novel of global voyaging One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing ...Show more
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is written by Jules Verne in 1870. It is a story of three accidental visitors to an underwater world hosted by the mysterious Captain Nemo. From their arrival on board the Nautilus, the adventurous Ned Land, loyal Conseil, and scholarly Professor Aronnax are torn be ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Penguin by Hand | Reading Level: good
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision ...Show more
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
'Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also delivers a sophisticated commentary on race, gender, class, celebrity and power' Telegraph on Swing Time 'Smith is virtuosic, as ever, on family and friendship, ...Show more
The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a p ...Show more
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller about strangers and secrets 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to en ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...Show more
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second W ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Consolation (#3 Paul Hirschhausen) by Garry Disher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Hirsch Ser.
In Consolation, Tiverton’s only police officer Constable Paul Hirschhausen is dealing with a snowdropper. Someone is stealing women’s underwear, and Hirsch knows how that kind of crime can escalate. Then two calls come in: a teacher who thinks a child may be in danger at home. A father on the rampage ov ...Show more
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly in the streets. We are hunted everywhere and we are hunted by ev ...Show more