Shell by Kristina Olsson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
"A luminous look at a city at a time of change, a time when the building of the Sydney Opera House was a reach for greatness." --The New York Times In this spellbinding and poignant historical novel--perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Flamethrowers--a Swedish glassmaker and a fierce ...Show more
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
$9.99 AUD
$32.99 (69% off)
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with he ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
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 William makes a mistake, a bad mist ...Show more
The Boat by Nam Le
$22.99 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le's The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world.Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the de ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more
Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Bks. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered a book that would change his life forever. Now a grown man, he is just one step away from solving the mystery of his mother?s death when a new plot is revealed, much deeper and darker than he could ever have imagined. That is when Alicia Gris appears, a soul born fr ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Rawson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of Engli ...Show more
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw' Time Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with ...Show more
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The phenomenal 2002 Booker Prize-winning, international bestseller - now a much-loved classic of contemporary fiction.
Art by Reza Yasmina
$23.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
The Tony Award-winning play that focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painting) as well as the meaning of friendship, to both the man who bought the painting and the two friends who come to see it." Yasmina Reza, born in Paris in 1959, is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and ...Show more