On the Blue Train by Kristel Thornell
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Yes, she said, finally. Breaks are important. There are times when it's wiser to get away. From it all...It was the work of a moment, on 4 December 1926, Agatha Christie of London became Teresa Neele, resident of the spa hotel, the Harrogate Hydro. With her wedding ring left behind her, and her minimal ...Show more
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.' Martin Luther King Jr..'I don't want that nurse touching my baby.' Those are the instructions from the newborn child's parents. However, when the baby goes into cardiac arrest, Ruth, a nurse of twenty years' experience, sees no option ...Show more
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus s"The Stranger," from the point of view of the mute Arab victims. " The New Yorker" He was the brother of the Arab killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the sha ...Show more
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful sunny nature. But as it becomes clear that Anna will not be a normal chil ...Show more
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
15.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passi ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's "The Hearing Trumpet" is the occult twin to "Alice in Wonderland", published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing tr ...Show more
UP ABOVE THE WORLD by BOWLES PAUL
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man of striking good looks and charm. The g ...Show more
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title is translated and introduced by Adam Thorpe. Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out. the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected. oh yes, there's many a murderer basking in the sun...When Therese Raquin is forced to m ...Show more
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends--third cousins, really--living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels confident he will win a Nobel prize for physics. When Guido spots Holly while exiting a museum, he can immediately sense that she wil ...Show more
The Ring: & The Opposite of Death by Roberto Saviano
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Italy's impoverished south, choices are limited. Rules and traditions are more powerful than the lives of individuals, and young Italians who stand on the right side of the law still find themselves on the frontline. In 'The Opposite of Death', Maria is a seventeen-year-old widow before she has even ...Show more
In the Making by G. F. Green
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ten-year-old Randal Thane is distressed to be taken from his mother, his governess and his home and sent to prep school. But once there, he discovers an adult world he had never before imagined, and falls unwillingly but entirely under the spell of a charismatic older boy, Felton, who will introduce him ...Show more