The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
$9.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives a ...Show more
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, ...Show more
Maralinga by Judy Nunn
$21.95 AUD
Category: General
During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided - without its people's knowledge. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere; an atomic weapons testing ground; an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious ...Show more
Old Enemies by Michael Dobbs
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Harry Jones braces himself for a tense, exhilarating race against time in Michael Dobbs' superb new thriller. In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owne ...Show more
Amandine by Marlena de Blasi
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
'A classic, expertly wrought novel of love, loss, and tangled loyalties, Amandine is also a banquet of sumptuous imagery and delicious historical detail.' - Chandra Prasad, author of On Borrowed Wings Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling author of A Thousand Days in Venice, brings her luminous prose to the ...Show more
Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is a masterly work from one of our greatest writers. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife ...Show more
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japa ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
$21.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974 ...My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license ...record ...Show more
Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
Introspective, intense and poignant, "The Wine of Solitude" is the most autobiographical of all Irene Nemirovsky's novels, now available in English for the first time. Imbued with melancholy, and regret, it explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her distant, self-absorbed mother and he ...Show more
The Lost Lions by EDWARD GOREY
$14.95 AUD
Category: General
Fetching young Hamish prefers life in the great outdoors. One day he mistakenly opens an envelope, which leads to movie stardom and sudden wealth. He buys property and begins raising lions, but soon the celebrity life gets the better of him. He flees the glitz and glamour, choosing his big cats over the ...Show more
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
When John met Savannah, he knew he was ready to turn over a new leaf. Always the angry rebel, he had dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Then he meets Savannah. The attraction is mutual and quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah vo ...Show more
Mrs Cook:The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife by Marele Day
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
A richly woven and evocative portrayal of Elizabeth Cook by the author of the acclaimed "Lambs of God."