On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
$26.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is a masterful study of obsession. This "Penguin Classics" edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. 'Call me Ishmael.' So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest wo ...Show more
Mad about the Boy by Maggie Alderson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Of all the nightmare options that passed through Antonia Heaveringham's head when her husband Hugo uttered the words, "I've got something to tell you..." a coming-out speech never figured. Suddenly alone in their adopted home of Sydney, with no friends save for her six-year-old son Tom and a pair of jew ...Show more
The Riders by Tim Winton
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: good
Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and daughter. After two years in Europe they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook again, a fresh start, a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's w ...Show more
You Gotta Have Balls by Lily Brett
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Ruth Rothwax, the heroine of Lily Brett's Too Many Men, which was hailed as "irresistible" (People) as well as "funny," "powerful," and "chilling" (O magazine), is back. The proprietor of a successful letter-writing business, Ruth has just branched out into a new greeting-card line. But it's not easy ...Show more
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Gina Davies, aka The Doll, is a 26-year-old pole dancer at the Chairman's Lounge in Sydney's Kings Cross. She's a flawed woman, racist, obsessed with money, who finds her life suddenly being destroyed by the things she has up until that moment most firmly believed in.The evening of the Mardi Gras, 2007. ...Show more
BEING DEAD by CRACE JIM
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'An extraordinarily moving love story' Observer A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they m ...Show more
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense and trouble relationship, of the women in the ...Show more
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the day Cobb and Mary meet kayaking on Maine's Allagash River and fall in love, the two approach life with the same sense of adventure they use to conquer the river's treacherous rapids. But rivers do not let go so easily, and neither does their love. So when Mary's life takes a cruel turn, she vow ...Show more
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
An enchanting tale of family, friends and renewal, with a taste of something truly magical. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters Bahar and Layla. In a sleepy Irish town beneath the holy mountain Croagh Patrick she hopes they might finally find a home. The sist ...Show more