On Photography by Susan Sontag
$22.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' ha ...Show more
Draw, Paint and Print Like Great Artists: Marion Deuchars' Book of Great Artists by Marion Deuchars
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art
In this imaginative new activity book, Marion Deuchars makes learning about art fun. Young readers are introduced to 18 great artists, then encouraged to try out the techniques that lie behind their greatest works. Short and accessible facts about each artist's life and works are followed by creative pr ...Show more
The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B. Hartley: (who can't help flying high and falling in deep) by Martine Murray
$15.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
When Cedar’s almost-boyfriend leaves to join a professional circus, her world is turned upside down and she is pulled between a glamorous, high-flying dream and her own circus of friends. “Part of me wants to keep it to myself... Part of me wants to shout its brilliance from the roof tops.” — Philip Ard ...Show more
Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars by Martine Murray
$14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Reading Level: From 7
A delightful story about friendship and acceptance and learning to see the wonder in the world. Molly has a strange life. Her mama collects herbs at dawn and makes potions, her father and brothers have gone away, and her house feels like a gypsy caravan. Molly doesn't want to know anything about herbs ...Show more
The Wishing Spell (#1 The Land of Stories) by Chris Colfer
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: The Land of Stories | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
The first book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories about two siblings who fall into a fairy-tale world Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic f ...Show more
Henrietta and the Perfect Night by Martine Murray
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Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Henrietta Ser.
Hello everybody, it's me. Henrietta the Great Go-Getter, and I'm having a big think. Right now I'm thinking I'd like a baby sister, so I can dress her up in different sorts of hats. But Mum says we'll have to wait and see. I'm terrible at waiting. Meanwhile, I'm an explorer of life, and that includes tr ...Show more
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket
$22.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction Series | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and ir ...Show more
Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau by Andrea Beaty
$21.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
In a three-story house with a shop down below, lived the worlds finest hat maker, Madame Chapeau. Like the Lady herself, all her hats were refined. Brilliantly singular. One of a kind. So begins the tale of a lonely hat maker who matches customers to the perfect hat but lacks her own perfect match i ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
A Lion in Paris by Beatrice Alemagna
$29.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A Lion in Paris is widely regarded as the most accomplished book by multi-award-winning children's author/illustrator Beatrice Alemagna. It tells the story of a lion who, bored by his rural life in the savanna, seeks excitement and opportunity in the City of Light. Upon arriving in Paris, the lion is di ...Show more
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: #1 | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The N ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more