Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces ...Show more
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America. 1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, ...Show more
Almost Invincible: A Biographical Novel of Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein by Suzanne Burdon
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
"She is singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything else she undertakes, almost invincible." Mary Shelley began Frankenstein in 1814, when she was eighteen. By then, she had been living for two years in a scandalous relati ...Show more
Italian Wife by Kate Furnivall
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Italy, 1932 -- Mussolini's Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost? One bright autumn morning, architect Isabella Berotti sits at a cafe in the vibrant centre of Bellina, when a woman she's never met asks her to watch her ten-year-old daughter, just for a moment. Reluctantly, Isabel ...Show more
Euphoria by Lily King
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance enc ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Features Rat, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad and their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.
The Chosen Queen by Joanna Courtney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Queens of Conquest
The Queens of the Conquest trilogy 1066. Three Queens. One Crown. As a young woman in England's royal court, Edyth, granddaughter of Lady Godiva, dreams of marrying for love. But political matches are rife while King Edward is still without an heir and the future of England is uncertain. When Edyth's fa ...Show more
Beneath This Man (#2 This Man) by Jodi Ellen Malpas
$17.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: This Man Trilogy
You've fallen in love reading about Christian Grey; you've seen the Fifty Shades movie. Now it's time for your next fix. Beyond undeniable passion is fierce love...Jesse Ward drowned her with his intensity and blindsided her with his passion, but he kept her away from his dark secrets and broken soul. L ...Show more
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: Compassionate & Tolerant Owner. A person without other pets and without children under four. A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young ...Show more
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughterâe(tm)s wedding, June Reidâe(tm)s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family âe" her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hun ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende; Nick Caistor (translator); Amanda Hopkinson (translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma B ...Show more
The Burning Land (The Last Kingdom #5) by Bernard Cornwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex ...Show more