Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J Morgan
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part of Leeds. Jude is a chaotic wild child who flirts with the wrong kind of people, drinks too much and gets stoned too often. Never happy to stay in one place for very long, he ...Show more
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
This title is a beautifully written and illustrated collection of Greek myths containing seventeen famous tales full of love, loss, greed, envy and bravery. Beautifully written by Ann Turnbull and illustrated by Sarah Young, this collection of seventeen Greek myths is truly something to treasure. The ti ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
An international bestseller, 'The Yacoubian Building' is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's mai ...Show more
The Same Earth by Kei Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
It all begins with the theft of Tessa Walcott's polkadot panties and a river that changes course overnight...When Imelda Richardson leaves the small village of Watersgate, Jamaica, armed only with one small suitcase, she is doing so for the second time. One of the throng of young Jamaicans who left the ...Show more
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death ...Show more
Consolation by James Wilson
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
1910, and Corley Roper, an eminent children's author of his age, mourns the death of his young daughter. Estranged from his wife, and wracked by grief, he happens one night upon Mary Wilson, a woman in a similar position, as she mourns her stillborn son. No longer able to inhabit the fictional world tha ...Show more
Ferney by James Long
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
When Mike and Gally move to a new cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her. What is it that draws them together? Reluctantly at first, then ...Show more
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions by Charles Dickens
$21.95 AUD
Category: General
Named after the man who delivered him as a baby, Doctor Marigold is a poor hawker who, after a dreadful turn of events, finds happiness with his adopted daughter Sophy. She is a deaf mute, and to help her learn to read and communicate, Doctor Marigold 'prescribes' her various stories, which he collects ...Show more
Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
Raised by his father in the dying town of Paradise Flats, Jack McGreary has learned to live by his wits. The year is 1939. Drought has turned America's heartland into a dust bowl, and the world is on the brink of war. Jack's father wants him to head north to Canada to sign up in the fight against Fascis ...Show more
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
In The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt fictionalizes the story of the Serbian-born scientist Nikola Tesla, inventor of radio and creator of AC electricity, a notoriously marginalized genius whose wild eccentricities, including obsessive-compulsive disorder and germ-phobia, have made him a co ...Show more