Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'A warm and tender tale about the power and healing of friendship and community and the magic of books' - Ruth Hogan As the bombs began to fall, the book club kept their hopes alive...The most emotional, uplifting and captivating story of wartime London and the extraordinary power of books to shine a li ...Show more
The Four by Ellie Keel
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
ONE SECRET COULD DESTROY THEM ALL Powerful. Sinister. Heart-wrenching. Unmissable. We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms.The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege.It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed Genevieve out ...Show more
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIt is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.Willie ...Show more
Book of Urban Legend by Rodney Dale
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Reference
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Synonyms & Antonyms will enable readers to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but everyone who enjoys the richness and diversit ...Show more
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. His stories of evolving American society are unflinchingly realistic and shrewdly ironic. 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets' tells of Maggie's seduction and downfall into prostitution amid the harsh world of the Br ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful ...Show more
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
$23.99 AUD
Category: General
A foreboding and darkly comic period thriller considered the inspiration for du Maurier's Rebecca, Vera is a deftly plotted masterpiece woven with intrigueWhen Lucy Entwhistle's father dies suddenly, she is left alone in the world struggling to find her place in life. But on the very same day she happen ...Show more
Swan Song of A J Wentworth by H. F. Ellis
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The last of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless assistant schoolmaster.It is to be A.J. Wentworth's final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown - or, to be more precise, Rawlinson's cap and gown - and returns to Burgrove for just one more time.His final term incl ...Show more
The Gentleman From Peru by Andre Aciman
$26.99 AUD
Category: General
A dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story from the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name. We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves ...Show more
The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales by Ailsa Wild with Briony Barr and Gregory Crocetti
$29.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
An illustrated science-history graphic novel exploring parallel experiences during WWI. The story takes place on two different physical scales - the macro-scale, from the point of view of a Victorian nurse supporting troops in the trenches of the Western Front - and simultaneously on the micro-level, fr ...Show more
The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and the Gun by Sébastien Japrisot Sébastien; Helen Weaver and Gallic Books (Translator); Gallic Books (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Voted one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels 'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene".' Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful -- and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian m ...Show more
The Unfinished Portrait by Neil Miley (Preface by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The book is built around the relationships of leading artists and actors in London starting in the 1880s. The independent life of an unfinished portrait that is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, becomes the story as the people that create it fade from popular memory.Sarah B ...Show more