The People on Platform 5 by Clare Pooley
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Every day at 8:05, Iona Iverson boards the train to go to work. As a seasoned commuter, she knows there are rules that everyone should follow:· You must have a job to go to· Don't consume hot food· Always pack for any eventuality· You must never speak to strangers on the trainIona sees the same group of ...Show more
Like Fire-Hearted Suns by Melanie Joosten
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
The cost of freedom is sacrifice London, 1908. It's the dawn of a new century and change is in the air.When 17-year-old Beatrice Taylor stumbles across the offices of the infamous Pankhursts and the Women's Social and Political Union she begins to realise her future may not be the one she wants.Her frie ...Show more
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition) by Geza Vermes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by one of our greatest religious scholarsSince its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical expert Geza Vermes's translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls has established itself as the authoritative standard. The original manuscripts, discovered in the Judean ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in th ...Show more
The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof
$34.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Claus and Lucas are twins. Their new life begins when they are left with their grandmother, the 'Witch', in a village in an occupied country. It's wartime. Their angelic looks are deceiving. They are implacable, dangerously ethical; what motivates them is a deeply embedded morality of absolute need.The ...Show more
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The international bestseller that has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a moving, funny, atmospheric novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. ...Show more
Zoom (PB) by Istvan Banyai
$14.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
As seen on the SERIAL podcast, season 2, episode 1 ("Dustwun") Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai's sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictures w ...Show more
Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by ...Show more
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Two misfits find each other through a work of art that becomes bigger than anything they ever expected, in this exuberant new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge-aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner-is determined to make it ...Show more
Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone (#9 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Outlander
THE NINTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES.The past may seem the safest place to be. But it's the most dangerous time to be aliveAmerica is on the edge of a bloody conflict, a country torn by war.Jamie and Claire survived Scotland and the Civil war that threatened its destruction. They must do ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by DANIEL DEFOE
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoehas been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, oper ...Show more