Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Tóibín, from the introductionDeath in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, ...Show more
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther S.
Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To his older brother, Robert, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to James Morison, his wife is the foundation on which his family rests and life withou ...Show more
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Cased Classics Ser.
In rural Norway, one evening after school, 11-year-old Siss and Unn strike up a deep and unusual bond. When the next day Unn sets off into the wintry woods in search of a mysterious frozen waterfall, known locally as the "ice palace," and does not return, a devastated Siss takes it upon herself to find ...Show more
The Silence by Don DeLillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic ...Show more
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each s ...Show more
I Wished by Dennis Cooper
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can't handle.' For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would alway ...Show more
The Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital by Joanna Nell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The heartwarming and hilarious new novel by the author of cherished bestsellers, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and raising money at the hospital for over fifty year ...Show more
Our Happy Days by Julia Holbe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set on the French Atlantic coast, Our Happy Days is a warm, vivid holiday novel about friendship, romance and the memories of our youth A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayal-and the memories of a summer that changed things forever. Lenica, Marie, Fanny and Elsa s ...Show more
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten; Marlaine Delargy (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime
Don't let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet. Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her do ...Show more
The Alchemist - Gift Edition by Paulo Coelho; James Noel Smith (Illustrator); Alan R. Clarke (Translator)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics
An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale o ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, this is the classic dystopian tale of oppressive government. War is peace.Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.The classic story of a society that controls your every move and thought and a man, Winston, who comes to realise the oppression he is livin ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The bestselling and award-winning novel from the author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vi ...Show more