Prophecy by S. J. Parris
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Giordano Bruno Ser.
A Tudor thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, renegade monk, philosopher and heretic, for fans of C. J. Sansom and The Name of the Rose Autumn, 1583. Under Elizabeth's rule, loyalty is bought with blood...An astrological phenomenon heralds the dawn of a new age and Queen Elizabeth's throne is in peril. As ...Show more
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
$9.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Blood of Eden #1
A DARKLY THRILLING DYSTOPIAN SAGA BEGINS. WHAT IF HAVING A CHANCE TO SAVE HUMANITY MEANT BECOMING WHAT YOU HATE AND FEAR MOST? TO SURVIVE IN A RUINED WORLD, SHE MUST EMBRACE THE DARKNESS...Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scaveng ...Show more
The Awakening of Miss Prim by Nata Sanmartin Fenollera; Sonia Soto (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving ...Show more
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy, retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias, meets his Aunt Augusta. The indomitable Aunt Augusta p ...Show more
English Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Arthur Rackham
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, ...Show more
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become ...Show more
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of EM Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there. In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embark ...Show more
Secrets in Silence by Nicole Trope
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Category: General
A stunning novel about secrets and silence - and how sooner or later the truth must be spoken. Hard-hitting, gripping and unputdownable. There was so much anger brewing in the child that sometimes Alicia feared for all of them. And now she had gone and done this terrible thing. This terrible, terrible t ...Show more
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
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Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Summer 2011. Berlin. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, though - as a brilliant, satirical imper ...Show more
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
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Category: General
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him - a scor ...Show more
In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is a bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. An investment banker approaching forty, in the midst of his career collapsing and marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. Confronting the dishevelle ...Show more
The Last Boat Home by Dea Brovig
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Explosive, dark and tender, The Last Boat Home is a devastating novel about sacrifice, survival and a mother's love. If you loved The Light Between Oceans or The Snow Child, this is for you. On the wind-swept southern coast of Norway, sixteen-year-old Else is out fishing on the icy sea, dragging her oar ...Show more