The Return of the King by J R R Tolkien
$16.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The Lord of the Rings 3 | Reading Level: good
Concluding the story of The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien s own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spre ...Show more
Caribou Island by David Vann
$24.95 AUD
Category: International Fiction
On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old dream, they're hauling logs out to C ...Show more
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow: Text Classics by Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife's death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody s ...Show more
Reaching Tin River: Text Classics by Jennifer Down, Thea Astley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Beautifully written." --Publishers Weekly "Intelligent, fresh, and new." --Kirkus First published in 1990. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Young Australian Belle, the daughter of an American musician, looks back on the people and forces that shaped her life. Researching in the archiv ...Show more
A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"A writer of astonishing gifts." --Publishers Weekly "Smart, compassionate." --New York Times Text Classics presents four key works from Thea Astley, including two never previously released in the United States. Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queens ...Show more
Before it Breaks by Dave Warner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Dave Warner Crime Ser.
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Good. Slight yellowing/foxing on edges of pages, crease on spine. Winner: 2016 Australian Crime Writers Association, Ned Kelly Award, Best Crime Novel Detective Inspector Daniel Clement is back in Broome, the tropical town where he grew up, licking his woun ...Show more
Habits of the House by Fay Weldon
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Love and Inheritance
Fay Weldon's new novel takes us inside the lives of an aristocratic household in the last three months of the nineteenth century. It's a time of riot and confusion, social upheaval, war abroad and shortage of money. Tea gowns are still laced with diamonds; there are still nine courses at dinner, but ban ...Show more
The House That Was Eureka: Text Classics by Nadia Wheatley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
It's 1981 and Evie is sixteen. She has left school but can't find work, and her family has just moved into the run-down inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Noel lives in the adjoining terrace house. He's fifteen, not taking school seriously and fed up with looking after his ancient bed-ridden grandmother. A ...Show more
The Nowhere Child by Christian White
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
‘Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.’ On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. ...Show more
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Based on a true story, three children in the slums of a sprawling Indian city set out to solve the case of a missing classmate in this harrowing debut about comradery, adventure, and the slow unravelling of a communal tragedy. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's smarter ...Show more
True West by David Whish-Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Western Australia, 1988. After betraying the Knights bikie gang, seventeen-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city with nothing left to lose. Working as a rogue tow truck driver in Perth, he is captured by right-wing extremists whose combination of seduction and blackmail keeps him on the wrong side of ...Show more
Mostly Harmless: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (#5) 42nd Anniversary Edition by Douglas Adams
$19.00 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: The\Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Ser.
The fifth and final installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction from Dirk Maggs.Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up.After years of galactic wandering ...Show more