The Offing by Benjamin Myers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous' Max Porter, author of Lanny A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime' An Observer Pick for 2019 One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from ...Show more
Treasure Island (Cloth-bound HB) by R. L. STEVENSON
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to kee ...Show more
Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exup ry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
Rules of Civility: The stunning debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An elegant and captivating debut novel, Amor Towles' Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent, a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and he ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's hi ...Show more
James and the Giant Peach (HB) by Roald Dahl
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
A splendiferous new hardback of James and the Giant Peach, part of a collection of truly delumptious classic Roald Dahl titles with stylish jackets over surprise printed colour cases, and exquisite endpaper designs. James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a fa ...Show more
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"...compulsively readable historical fiction... a] powerful novel about unusual women facing sometimes insurmountable odds with grace, grit, love and tenacity." - Kristin Hannah, The Washington Post Named one of best books of the year by Marie Claire and Bookbub"If you enjoyed "The Tattooist of Auschwit ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
Desire Lines by Felicity Volk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Are you still a liar? The crafting of those five words, even without dispatch, left her chilled. Arctic Circle, 2012. On a lightless day at the end of the polar winter, landscape architect Evie Waddell finds herself exhuming the past as she buries Australian seeds in a frozen mountain vault - insurance ...Show more
Confession with Blue Horses by Sophie Hardach
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019. Tobi and Ella's childhood in East Berlin is shrouded in mystery. Now adults living in London, their past is full of unanswered questions. Both remember their family's daring and terrifying attempt to escape, which ended in tragedy; but the fall-out from that ...Show more