Burn-In - A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution by P. W. Singer; August Cole
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
"A white-knuckle adventure . . . This near-future was crafted by experts, and it shows."--Daniel H. Wilson, New York Times best-selling author of Robopocalypse "Fantastic, compelling, and authoritative." --General David Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through ...Show more
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph' A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling story ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says . . . And in the process, my own.' Claudia Hampton is dying. A professional historian in her seventies, she casts her mind back through her own life to identify the currents and winds upon which she has been cast adrift. We see how this strong, independent ...Show more
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow (Collector's Edition) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.' In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the ter ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Imprisoned within the dread ramparts of the Chateau d'If, Dantès plans his escape to t ...Show more
Silk Vol. 1 - Threats and Menaces by Maurene Goo; Takeshi Miyazawa (Artist)
$34.50 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
By day Cindy Moon is an intrepid reporter for the upstart new media empire Threats & Menaces, under her old boss J. Jonah Jameson. By night she's Silk, crime-fighting super hero! But Cindy's worlds are about to collide when her latest investigation puts Silk and everyone she loves in danger! Someone ...Show more
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, this dazzling and incisive novel satirises postcolonial society and celebrates oddness. Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: A wedding feast to conjur ...Show more
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, and perhaps his funniest novel, Tortilla Flat includes a critical introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before ...Show more
Highballs for Breakfast by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: General
'A splendid anthology' The TimesNo writer knew better than PG Wodehouse how a drink can lift the spirits - and he was a master at the high comic effects of having a few too many. Highballs for Breakfast is a handpicked selection of wit, wisdom and comic moments from Wodehouse's work that involve gettin ...Show more
The Bolds on Holiday (#3) by Julian Clary
$14.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Bolds
Carry on camping with dream team Julian Clary and David Roberts! It's the summer holidays, and the hairiest family in Teddington decide to take a well-earned holiday by the seaside. With their extended hyena family in tow, they head on down to Cornwall for a spot of camping. But it's never long before t ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice ...Show more
The Storm Sister (#2 Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Seven Sisters | Reading Level: very good
Ally D'Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his da ...Show more