The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men ...Show more
Theft: A Love Story by Carey Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Theft: A Love Story, with a cover by Michael Leunig Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous' painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilib ...Show more
The Unmourned (Monsarrat #2) by Meg Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Series: The Monsarrat Series
Not all murder victims are mourned, but the perpetrator must always be punished ...Robert Church, Superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, takes full advantage of his position. First, there are the opportunities to siphon off supplies and sell them. And the Factory also provides an excellent fro ...Show more
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel... that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a ro ...Show more
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
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
Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestion by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$9.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
A powerful statement about feminism today from "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama), the author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her bab ...Show more
Little Stones by Elizabeth Kuiper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Hannah lives in Zimbabwe during the reign of Robert Mugabe- it's a country of petrol queues and power cuts, food shortages and government corruption. Yet Hannah is lucky. She can afford to go to school, has never had to skip a meal, and lives in a big house with her mum and their Shona housekeeper. Hann ...Show more
Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
*** 30th Anniversary edition of the bestselling novel of England - now with a new introduction from Edward Rutherfurd *** The towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and prosperity. A masterpiece of breathtaking scope, from the Ice Age to the present day, Sar ...Show more
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
$42.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Sequel to Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades.When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead.With The Testaments, the wait is o ...Show more
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
A haunting story of love and war from "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama), the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's i ...Show more
The Secret Life of Books by Tom Mole
$33.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. Books are f ...Show more
This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Sometimes you need to go deep into the past, to make sense of the present Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new mille ...Show more