Story of O: Pt. 2: Return to the Chateau by Pauline Reage
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Story of O Ser. | Reading Level: good
Parisian photographer O returns to the place of her sexual initiation - the elegant chateau Roissy. Here, she submits completely to the sexual whims of one man...her lover. This is the sequel to the classic French erotic bestseller, and a darkly seductive story of dominance and submission. Read it if yo ...Show more
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Black Swan S. | Reading Level: very good
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder -- a man ...Show more
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain...' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells ...Show more
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Late one summer evening, Wilberforce - rich, young, and work-obsessed - makes a detour on his way home to the vast undercroft of Caerlyon Hall, and the domain of Francis Black, a place where wine, hospitality and affection flow freely. Through Francis, Wilberforce is initiated into a life rich in the pr ...Show more
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: good
As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who bel ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a sh ...Show more
The Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An irresistible story that takes readers right into the lives of twelve different women, each with varied pasts and secrets.
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND RED by Dostoyevsky Fyodor
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Ang ...Show more
Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Gin, the albino, marries to escape the confines of an asylum. Toad, a small man who wears corsets, marries to prove his manhood. Together they are freaks—feared and ridiculed by the remote farming community in which they live. Then into their lives come two Italian POWs bringing music, sensuality and a ...Show more
Equator: A Novel by Wayne Ashton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
1947. Carlos slips over the orphanage wall in search of the village girl who has captured his heart. From that moment, his is a life at sea, a life that moves across the globe and across generations, lived on the turning tides of love affairs, friendships and enmities. Equator is a glorious and intricat ...Show more
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days ...Show more