A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
A modern classic, this epic tale of families, romance and political intrigue never loses its power to delight and enchant readers. Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata - and her mother's - attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal ...Show more
Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1 by Inio Asano
$34.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Goodnight Punpun Ser.
This is Punpun Onodera's coming-of-age story. His parents' marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punp ...Show more
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
$9.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Everything Is Illuminatedis Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah WoodA young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching ...Show more
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling author of Neverwhere returns with his biggest, most commercial novel yet--a tour de force of contemporary fiction A master of inventive fiction, Neil Gaiman delves into the murky depths where reality and imagination meet. Now in American Gods, he works his literary magic to extraordinary ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lo ...Show more
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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Category: General
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he i ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences by Truman Capote
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows' On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children ...Show more
S. by J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding--all within the margins of a book conceived by Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final nove ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitxgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the ...Show more
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a major film starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, due for release in 2014 In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, ...Show more
Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller by Octavia E. Butler
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Earthseed 1 | Reading Level: very good
This first Earthseed novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to The Handmaid's Tale, you'll love this beautiful new edition of a seminal American classic. 'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, i ...Show more
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald' Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail 'An act of such breath-taking imagination, daring and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the debate in the mind non-stop. There are elements of Doris Lessing in the wr ...Show more