Stormbird (#1 Wars of the Roses) by Conn Iggulden
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Category: General | Series: War of the Roses Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The master of historical fiction, Conn Iggulden, retells one of the most brutal, bloody civil wars in English history, in the FIRST INSTALMENT of his Wars of the Roses series. King Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead. In 1437 his gentle son comes of age and takes the throne. Frail in body ...Show more
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
$24.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ralph Ellison's impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the story of an invisible man "simply because people refuse to see me". Yet his powerfully depicted adventures go far beyond the story of one man.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: From
It's New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from ...Show more
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
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Category: General
This is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro's stories surprise and ...Show more
Perfect North by Jenny Bond
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
1897: As explorers and scientists scramble to conquer the North Pole, Nils Strindberg, with fellow adventurers S. A. Andre and Knut Frankel, takes up the challenge. Setting flight in a hydrogen balloon, Nils leaves his fiance Anna and his brother Erik behind in Stockholm anxiously hoping for his return. ...Show more
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got more information out of a ...Show more
Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith
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Category: General
In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a s ...Show more
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
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Category: General
A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Both C ...Show more
Season to Taste or How To Eat Your Husband by Natalie Young
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Category: General
Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving...Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooking, avoids the neighbours. Runs a little business making cakes. No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, fo ...Show more
Constance by Patrick McGrath
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Category: General
The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan. At a literary party she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Intoxicated by her chilly beauty, Sidney pursues the young woman with restless determination and soon proposes marriage. Constance accepts, and ...Show more
The King by Kader Abdolah
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
It is the nineteenth century and the kingdom of Persia is at a turning point. When a young King, Shah Naser, takes to the throne he inherits a medieval, enchanted world. But beyond the court, the greater forces of colonisation and industrialisation close in. The Shah's grand vizier sees only one solutio ...Show more