Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost. Desperate to ig ...Show more
Devotion by Hannah Kent
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Prussia, 1836 Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838 The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at ...Show more
Mission Angela by Denise Main; Andrew Hoare (Cover Design by); Caroline Mullarkey (Editor, Prepared for Publication by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Compelling Story of Espionage and LoveAfter WW2 a defeated Germany is divided, and East Berlin becomes the de facto capital of the German Democratic Republic. The Berlin Wall is built which becomes the most powerful and oppressive iconic symbol of the Cold War.West Berlin Police retrieve the body of a ...Show more
Hopeless Kingdom by Kgshak Akec
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelong. At each new place, challenges test and break Akita, her four siblings and her parents. Just when eight-year-old Akita is feeling settled at her new school and community in Sydney for the first time in ...Show more
Nonfiction - A Novel by Julie Myerson
$29.99 AUD
$45.00 (33% off)
Category: Fiction
'Her best novel yet' The Times'Incandescent'The ObserverTwo parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. Meanwhile the mother - a novelist - attempts to understand her uneasy, unresolved relationship with her own mother.Weaving between childhoods past and present, ...Show more
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious man, has penetrated her soul and turned her inside out. This is a devastating novel of the interior, of a woman yearning to love, of the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, of the cosm ...Show more
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel--the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals--is in English at last. Lucr cia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, whic ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION PICK OF 2021 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’s FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 ‘Serious novels are rarely this fun’ The Times ‘A gift’ Guardian ‘Buoyant with humanity’ Daily Mail ‘Worth the seven year wait’ Stylist When everything is lost, i ...Show more
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin
$75.00 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea - '...reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago' (David Mitchell) - comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating Le Guin's vision ...Show more
The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father's neglect and her mother's sadness, she begi ...Show more
All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
'One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century.' - The New York Times Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and they move to his village in the south ...Show more