In Search of a Reputation - Bastien-Lepage by Neil Miley (Preface by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The book traces an art student's search for a reputation in the years following the War of 1870. France is in political and financial turmoil, the student struggles to find his way in a changing landscape that insists on art being part of the political progress to ensure the survival of a Republican for ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* Winner of New Zealand's Fiction Book of the Year 2023 A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour. Everywhere, the birds, but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree, and we're staying, and you need to leave and ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
The Dragonet Prophecy: The Graphic Novel (#1 Wings of Fire) by Tui T. Sutherland
$18.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Wings of Fire Graphic Novel
The best-selling Wings of Fire series takes flight in this first graphic novel edition, adapted by the author with art by Mike Holmes. Clay has grown up under the mountain, chosen along with four other dragonets to fulfill a mysterious prophecy and end the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. So wh ...Show more
All the Golden Light by Siobhan O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
"1918, Belowla, south coast New South Wales. As the Great War grinds to an end, Adelaide Roberts accompanies her father to a rugged island off the south coast of New South Wales to deliver much-needed supplies. While loss and deprivation has decimated the country, Ada is determined to live a life of pur ...Show more
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
$21.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the sa ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
With a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century. Orwell's classic dystopian fiction warns us of our future, and deals with issues that speak to multiple dangers faced by many nations today. Winston Smith is a memb ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the mater ...Show more
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
THE SATURDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ‘Truly one of the most beautiful stories you’ll ever read’ JOANNA CANNON ‘I laughed, I cried, I sat quietly and thought about what I’d read… a future classic’ CLARE MACKINTOSH This is the story of Isaac and the Egg, a grieving young man and his unforgettable new frie ...Show more
The Brightest Night: The Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire, Book Five) by T Tui Sutherland
$18.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Wings of Fire Graphic | Reading Level: 18
Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously. If Pyrrhia’s dragons need her, Clay, Tsunami, Glory, and Starflight to end the war, she’s ready to try. She even has some good ideas how to do it, if anyone would listen to her. But shattering news from Morrowseer has shaken Sunny’s faith in t ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...Show more