The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: "Over To You", "Kiss Kiss", "Someone Like You", "Switch Bitch" and eight further stories: "The Umberella man"; "Mr Botibol"; "Vengeance in Mine inc"; "The Butler"; "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life"; "The Bookseller"; and, "The H ...Show more
The People on Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, Old Filth, will ...Show more
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Oprah's Book Choice 'Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ...She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.' These extraordinary stories centre on African conflicts as seen through the eyes of children and describes their resilienc ...Show more
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
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 Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
The third in a series of novels that began with The Angel's Game and The Shadow of the Wind. The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from T ...Show more
The Last Days of the National Costume by Anne Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: Very Good
Narrated by one of the funniest, wisest literary observers of all time this is a brilliant, charming and heartwarming novel about illicit love, sewing, blackouts and Belfast.
Ghost Moth by Michele Forbes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Ghost Moth will transport you to two hot summers, twenty years apart. Northern Ireland, 1949. Katherine must choose between George Bedford - solid, reliable, devoted George - and Tom McKinley, who makes her feel alive. The reverberations of that summer - of the passions that were spilled, the lies that ...Show more
Summer Lovin' by Liz Byrski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Summer Lovin' brings you fourteen stories about love from some of Australia's best-known writers. From love found to love lost, from first times to second chances, in the city, on the land and through every chamber of the heart, these uniquely Australian stories are as moving as they are entertaining. ...Show more
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Ange ...Show more
Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Literary
A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Set in Peru during the 1950s, "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meet ...Show more