Swan Song of A J Wentworth by H. F. Ellis
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The last of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless assistant schoolmaster.It is to be A.J. Wentworth's final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown - or, to be more precise, Rawlinson's cap and gown - and returns to Burgrove for just one more time.His final term incl ...Show more
Late: A Novel by Michael Fitzgerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
'So, was it hard to pretend I was "dead"? Well, my motivation was abundant; it was splendiferous, endless, you might say.'An American actress, renowned for being late, is living with her two cats in a modernist clifftop apartment in Sydney in the late 1980s. The recounting of her story is prompted by th ...Show more
The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales by Ailsa Wild with Briony Barr and Gregory Crocetti
$29.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
An illustrated science-history graphic novel exploring parallel experiences during WWI. The story takes place on two different physical scales - the macro-scale, from the point of view of a Victorian nurse supporting troops in the trenches of the Western Front - and simultaneously on the micro-level, fr ...Show more
Hamlet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a carefu ...Show more
The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and the Gun by Sébastien Japrisot Sébastien; Helen Weaver and Gallic Books (Translator); Gallic Books (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Voted one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels 'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene".' Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful -- and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian m ...Show more
The Unfinished Portrait by Neil Miley (Preface by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The book is built around the relationships of leading artists and actors in London starting in the 1880s. The independent life of an unfinished portrait that is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, becomes the story as the people that create it fade from popular memory.Sarah B ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Gregory Zilboorg (Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A collectible hardcover centennial edition of the exhilarating Russian dystopian novel of totalitarian mass surveillance that inspired George Orwell's 1984, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen A Penguin Vitae Edition In a glass-enclosed city of abs ...Show more
Be Mine (HB) by Richard Ford
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVEROver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more ...Show more
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
The humorous and heart-wrenching story of a woman's re-entry into life on the outside after twenty years in incarceration, told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. 'There's no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by Hannaham.' ...Show more
Fugitive Pieces: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction by Anne Michaels
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astoundi ...Show more
Max Gate by Damien Wilkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"A witty and sentient writer"--LA Times "Wilkins can command a breathtakingly supple literary style"--The New York Times 1928: Thomas Hardy is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset. Downstairs, his literary friends are locked in a bitter fight with loca ...Show more