Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
$12.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence--violence that poisons everything around. The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing in the murky waters of the irrigation canals discover her decom ...Show more
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12) by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 12 | Reading Level: very good
As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles o ...Show more
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possi ...Show more
BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Published as Beartown in USA
In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But it is all put in jeopardy by a sin ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird - Graphic Novel by Harper Lee; Fred Fordham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Reading Level: very good
A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved American classic, voted the #1 Great American Read 2018. 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy ...Show more
The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade by Max Brallier
$14.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The Last Kids on Earth
Wimpy Kid meets The Walking Dead in this hilarious post-apocalyptic graphic novel series, soon to be a major NETFLIX series! Jack Sullivan is back. It's still TOTAL MONSTER ZOMBIE C HAOS on the streets, but now Jack has a gang of friends to help him through - science genius and best friend Quint, super- ...Show more
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
$22.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Ruth, a ghostwriter of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself. Her ailing mother Luling tries to hold on to the evaporating past, writing of her girlhood in a Chinese mountain village. Set in modern San Francisco and pre-war China, Tan's new novel is the mesmerising tale of a mo ...Show more
Monsters: The passion and loss that created Frankenstein by Sharon Dogar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
1814- Mary Godwin, the sixteen-year-old daughter of radical socialist and feminist writers, runs away with a dangerously charming young poet - Percy Bysshe Shelley. From there, the two young lovers travel a Europe in the throes of revolutionary change, through high and low society, tragedy and passion, ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - first published in 1987 - brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrenc ...Show more
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
$14.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more