The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Heaven Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A hardcover gift edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel, now with a teaser chapter of its long-awaited sequel, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven."All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time..." Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life ...Show more
The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
$9.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives a ...Show more
Lucky Jim: Popular Penguins by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full o ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is a masterly work from one of our greatest writers. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti ...Show more
The Secret of the Unicorn (Tintin #11 HB) by Herge
$26.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Tintin (Hardback)
In this Tintin adventure, the discovery of a model ship linked to one of Captain Haddock's seafaring ancestors leads to a mysterious series of thefts and a search for lost treasure.
The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A soaring novel of resilience, hope, strength and tenderness, The Taliban Cricket Club reveals how love can overcome, and outwit, even the power of tyrants. Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in Kabul, is summoned to the infamous Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to face i ...Show more
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl
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Category: General | Reading Level: good
Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. Here you will find the suggestion of other-worldly goings on in a dark story about a swan and a boy; the surprising tale of a wealthy young wastrel who suddenly develops a remarkable new ability; and, meet the hitchhiker whose light-fingers sav ...Show more
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
In "Winter Journal", Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled later years and, finally, her death - and the subsequent anxiety attacks Auster suff ...Show more
On the Road (Film tie-in) by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel "On the Road" finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles ("Motorcycle Diaries") starring Sam Riley ("Control", "Brighton Rock"), Garret Hedlund, Kristen Stewart ("Twilight ...Show more
The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The Selector of Souls begins with a scene that is terrifying, harrowing and yet strangely tender: we're in the mid ranges of the Himalayas as a young woman gives birth to her third child with the help of her mother, Damini. The birth brings no joy, just a horrible accounting, and the act that follows - ...Show more