Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Atonement and Enduring Love comes 'A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning? Sunday TimesThe year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final ...Show more
The Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (HB) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, 'the Jazz Age', but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he ...Show more
Snake Bite by Christie Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The funny and shocking coming-of-age story of a wild teenager in a Canberra you never dreamed existed!
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$12.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team - the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson - as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the le ...Show more
The New Paper Trails by GARDEN, ROBIN
$25.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The\New Paper Ser.
The New Paper Trails is a lively and provocative collection of 24 short-short stories suitable for upper primary and lower secondary students of English. These lesson-sized stories from Australian and international authors cover a range of themes, styles and genres, and introduce students to writing tec ...Show more
Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge, drink gin, have parties - and everywhere they go they are accompanied by the glamorous, irrepressible Fife. She is Ernest's lover. Hadley is the ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: VINTAGE CLASSIC
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerg ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Threads Collection | Reading Level: very good
Published to coincide with the 2011 centennial of "The Secret Garden's" publication, this "Penguin Threads" edition of the classic children's tale includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the "Penguin Threads" series d ...Show more
The Incident by Kenneth Macleod
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Certainly there are ghosts in these towers. For me they are the ghosts of two children. And even now - ten years later and seven hundred miles away - I still wake most nights with the muffled echo of their cries in my ears and the weight of their deaths on my conscience...' Three lives; three turning p ...Show more
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Love is a bygone idea, centuries-worn. There are things we can go without, and love is among them; bread and a warm hearth are not. In September 1870 a train leaves Manchester bound for London. On board is Lizzie Burns, a poor worker from the Irish slums, emb ...Show more
One Day (Flipback) by David Nicholls
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm.YOU CAN LIVE YOUR WHOLE LIFE NOT REALISING THAT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.15TH JULY 1988. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their se ...Show more
Rose River by Margareta Osborn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Adapted from Margareta Osborn's bestselling ebook novella A Bush Christmas, Rose River is a gloriously funny romantic comedy set in the beautiful Australian outback. Take one city girl - and drop her into the back of beyond ... Housesitting in rural Burdekin's Gap, high up in the East Gippsland mountai ...Show more