Mansfield Park by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Se ...Show more
See How Small by Scott Blackwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: Adult
A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose 'that's as fine as any being written by an American author today' (Ben Fountain) One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. Th ...Show more
The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Special Editions
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University o ...Show more
Syllabus : Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry's pioneering, life-changing workshopThe award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, B ...Show more
I'll be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I'll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, 20-something-year-old woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from h ...Show more
There Will be Lies by Nick Lake
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Shelby Jane Cooper is seventeen, pretty and quiet. It's just Shelby and her mom, Shaylene, a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans, stitches tapestry, eats ice-cream for dinner and likes to keep Shelby safe. So safe she barely goes out. So safe she doesn't go to school. Because anything could happen ...Show more
The Fiery Cross (Outlander #5) by Diana Gabaldon
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Category: General | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: good
This is the fifth novel in the bestselling outlander series - soon to be a major new TV series. 1771: the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other. Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a ...Show more
Angels by Marian Keyes
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Category: General
'I'd always lived a fairly blameless life. Up until the day I left my husband and ran away to Hollywood...' Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. At thirty-three she has a proper job, is happily married to Garv and never puts a foot wrong. So why does she make a b ...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
Company for Henry by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: General | Series: Everyman Wodehouse
Everyone in Company for Henry wants to escape from something. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country house on his millionaire American cousin, J. Wendell Stickney. Wendell wishes he could be rid of his embarrassing aunt Kelly, while Kelly wants to escape her financial dependence ...Show more
The Aeneid by Virgil
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that must be paid in human suffering to secure Rome's future g ...Show more