Daniel Martin by John Fowles
$12.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Set internationally and spanning three decades, "Daniel Martin" is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travel ...Show more
Stay Where You are and Then Leave by John Boyne
$21.95 AUD
Category: Literary
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King ...Show more
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
$9.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces ...Show more
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he struggles with the intensity of the heat, dirt and dust, and with the secrets this country hides. Despite the gulf of experience and understanding between them, Adrian finds unexpected frie ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 by Adolfo Aranjuez
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Now in its fifth edition, Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. This year, Melbourne Books is again expanding the project, increasing the number of featured pieces to over fifty. AWAW ...Show more
The Great War - Stories Inspired by Objects from the First World War
$27.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
This is a moving anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War, illustrated by Jim Kay. The Great War is a powerful collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. From a soldier's writing case to the nose of a Zeppelin bomb ...Show more
Stone Mattress - Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman bo ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead m ...Show more
The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly origin ...Show more
The Secret Maker of the World by Abbas El-Zein
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary
A powerful collection of fiction that lingers long after the last word
Shadow Of The Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border.
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who de ...Show more