Cruelty by Roald Dahl
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A wife pawns her lover's parting gift with unexpected consequences, an unusual painting proves to be more valuable than anyone, especially its owner, could ever have predicted, a husband and wife, unable to get their new baby to feed, hit upon a disturbing solution . . . "Cruelty" highlights a domestic ...Show more
Deception: Soon to be a major Netflix film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Sir Ben Kingsley and more! by Roald Dahl
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
VENGEANCE IS MINE INC. will undertake, on your behalf and in absolute confidence, to administer suitable punishment and in this regard we respectfully submit to you a choice of methods (together with prices) for your consideration'Enter the dark and deceiving world of Roald Dahl's stories for adults. Am ...Show more
Lust by Roald Dahl
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives, a slighted old man takes an elaborate and chilling revenge on his tormentor, a sculpture comes between a scheming wife and her put-upon husband . . . Lust highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, ...Show more
Madness by Roald Dahl
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Category: Fiction
A woman obsessed with punctuality makes a fateful decision, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband, a cat's curious behaviour comes between a husband and his wife. . . "Madness" highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, much darker. Collected together for the fir ...Show more
The Little Hotel (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
People live year after year in a hotel like this. We have their police papers, we know their sicknesses and family troubles; people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors. After the Second World War, bizarre char ...Show more
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more
A Woman Loved by Andreï Makine; Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema. Countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, betrayal, revenge, murder - there is no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg Erdmann, a young Russian filmmaker, seeks to discover and portray the real Catherine, her essential, emotion ...Show more
Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. Here is a tale that will enchant Victoria Hislop's fans - it is inspired by the beauty of her beloved Greece and features ...Show more
Holding by Graham Norton
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal - until now; the beautiful and mysterious family of three spinster sisters each with their own secrets and ...Show more
Echoland by Per Petterson
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents in Denmark. Confused by the underlying tension between his mother and grandmother, Arvid is grappling with his own sense of self. He's on the cusp of becoming a teenager, feeling awkward in his own skin. As Arvid cycles a ...Show more
Transit by Rachel Cusk
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspe ...Show more