The Specimen by Martha Lea
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
The year is 1866. Edward Scales is a businessman, a butterfly collector, a respectable man. He is the man Gwen Carrick fell in love with seven years before. Now he is dead and Gwen is on trial for his murder. From country house drawing rooms to the rainforests of Brazil, "The Specimen" explores the pric ...Show more
Sharpe's Revenge (#21) The Peace of 1814 by Bernard Cornwell
$16.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Sharpe Series
Richard Sharpe triumphs in the last battle of the war, only to find himself in worse peril when charged to recover Napoleon,s treasure. It is 1814. There are rumours that Napoleon is dead, or has run away, but Sharpe has one last battle to fight before he can lay down his sword. It is the battle for Tou ...Show more
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Banished for centuries, as punishment for trying to measure time, the inventor of the world's first clock is finally granted his freedom, along with a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world and embarks on a journey with two unlikely p ...Show more
Dissolution (Shardlake #1) by C. J. Sansom
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Shardlake
Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can o ...Show more
The Remains of Love by Zeruya Shalev
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Hemda Horovitz is nearing the end of her life. As she lies in bed in Jerusalem, the present flickers in and out and memories from the past flood her thoughts: her childhood in the kibbutz spent under the disappointed gaze of her stern, pioneer father; the lake that was her only solace; and her own two c ...Show more
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence tha ...Show more
Hannibal: Fields of Blood by Ben Kane
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
Hannibal's campaign to defeat Rome continues as he marches south to confront his enemy. With him is a young soldier, Hanno. Like his general, Hanno burns to vanquish Rome. Never has the possibility seemed so likely. But a stealthy game of cat and mouse is being played as Rome's generals seek to avoid co ...Show more
The Bull Slayer by Bruce Macbain
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Roman Games
THE ROMAN EMPIRE, 109 ADThe frontier province of Bithynia is a cesspit of sedition, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome. When a rich Roman official is found dead on a desolate hillside; two riderless horses tethered in a nearby wood, it is assumed he was killed as a protest against E ...Show more
Look Who's Morphing by Tom Cho
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
This is a collection of stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies of sexual and physical power.
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Ming-Yi Wu
$32.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
On Wayo-wayo, a fictional island in the South Pacific, every second son has to sail into the wide sea as sacrifice to the Sea God on the day he turns fifteen. Atile'i is one such boy. Being the strongest swimmer and best sailor on the island, he sets out to defy destiny. His journey takes him across the ...Show more
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
$37.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Cousins' War Ser.
The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors, Elizabeth of York, wife to Henry VII. Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville - the White Queen - the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she ...Show more
We Need New Names by Elizabeth Z. Tshele
$39.95 AUD
Category: General
'To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terri ...Show more