The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
Outline: A Novel (Outline trilogy #1) by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
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Category: Crime | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget -- until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she is determined to prov ...Show more
Wildlife by Richard Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing, transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of Rock Springs. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlife--first published ...Show more
Transit (Outline trilogy #2) by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront asp ...Show more
Fox 8 by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea CardinalFox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children's bedtime ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hu ...Show more
The Worry Front by H. C. Gildfind
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Through a multitude of distinct voices, Gildfind's startling tales explore the absurd, macabre, surreal - and too-real - whilst wrestling with the irrevocable acts, immutable facts, and relentless uncertainties that lie at the dark heart of every life.
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT ' It is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk David Strorm's father decries any and all blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that David and his cousin Rosalind, have their own secre ...Show more
Dear Mrs Bird (#1 The Emmy Lake Chronicles) by A J Pearce
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Category: Fiction | Series: Emmeline Lake 1 | Reading Level: very good
This charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about a young woman who longs to be a war correspondent and inadvertantly becomes a secret advice columnist is "a jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People)--for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girl ...Show more
Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece by Daniel Keyes
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Ch ...Show more
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel from the author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writ ...Show more