Beloved by Toni Morrison
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH.
Improper Stories by Saki
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Eighteen sharply satirical and deliciously disturbing tales by Saki, the Edwardian master of the short story.
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: "Over To You", "Kiss Kiss", "Someone Like You", "Switch Bitch" and eight further stories: "The Umberella man"; "Mr Botibol"; "Vengeance in Mine inc"; "The Butler"; "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life"; "The Bookseller"; and, "The H ...Show more
Summer Lovin' by Liz Byrski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Summer Lovin' brings you fourteen stories about love from some of Australia's best-known writers. From love found to love lost, from first times to second chances, in the city, on the land and through every chamber of the heart, these uniquely Australian stories are as moving as they are entertaining. ...Show more
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly a ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Ange ...Show more
Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Set in Peru during the 1950s, "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meet ...Show more
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Tr ...Show more
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Praised as a "master storyteller" (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his "flawless use of language" (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is ...Show more