We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Gregory Zilboorg (Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A collectible hardcover centennial edition of the exhilarating Russian dystopian novel of totalitarian mass surveillance that inspired George Orwell's 1984, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen A Penguin Vitae Edition In a glass-enclosed city of abs ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
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Category: Fiction
'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, <i>The Magician</i> is a great imaginative achievement - immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized.' - Richard Ford When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, ...Show more
Fugitive Pieces: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction by Anne Michaels
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astoundi ...Show more
Max Gate by Damien Wilkins
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Category: General
"A witty and sentient writer"--LA Times "Wilkins can command a breathtakingly supple literary style"--The New York Times 1928: Thomas Hardy is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset. Downstairs, his literary friends are locked in a bitter fight with loca ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet: Cambridge School Shakespeare by Robert Smith
$15.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are en ...Show more
Ike and Kay by James MACMANUS
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An epic love story on the fogbound streets of London reeling from the Blitz. Acclaimed author James MacManus conjures a compelling historical novel based on the true story of the secret love affair at the heart of the Second World War. It is 1942, and war-battered London plays host to the imposing figur ...Show more
Stanley and Elsie by NICOLA UPSON
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A compelling novel reimagining the sordid family life of famed painter Stanley Spencer. The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all wars. Combini ...Show more
Sea Change by Gina Chung
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus ...Show more
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite ...Show more
The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense. With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is ...Show more