The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Tina is a young woman hiding from her grief on the streets of the Cross. On a cold night in the middle of winter she breaks all her own rules when she agrees to go home with a customer. What she finds in his house will change her life forever. Across the country Sarah and Doug are trapped in limbo, stru ...Show more
In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Zoe Howard is 17 when her brother, Russell, introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is unlike anyone she has ever met, 'a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel'. His sister, Anna, is shy and thoughtful, 'a little orphan'. They may come from different social worlds ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home.' Perth, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Frank, survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. In ...Show more
Home by Marilynne Robinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Gilead | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearHailed as "incandescent," "magnificent, ...Show more
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning! In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate o ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In AmericaKarl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, ' ...Show more
Great Ideas: Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naught ...Show more
The Pillars of the Earth (#1 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known ...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul ...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secr ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but ...Show more
Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted ...Show more
Testimony by Anita Shreve
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
AT Avery Academy, a prestigious New England boarding school, the headmaster finds himself in possession of a videotape – a disaster in a small package. More shocking than the sexual acts recorded on the tape are the ages of the students. One girl is just fourteen. A Pandora’s box, the tape unleashes a s ...Show more