Shadow Of The Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border.
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May ...Show more
Life: Great Short Stories by Women (The Story) by Victoria Hislop (Ed)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Story
'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars. All the stories in this volume ...Show more
The Great War - Stories Inspired by Objects from the First World War
$27.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
This is a moving anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War, illustrated by Jim Kay. The Great War is a powerful collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. From a soldier's writing case to the nose of a Zeppelin bomb ...Show more
Stone Mattress - Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman bo ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead m ...Show more
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who de ...Show more
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The "War of the End of the World" is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in which prostitutes, beggars and bandits establish Canudos, a new republic, a libe ...Show more
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitt ...Show more
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
This book is shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015. For eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju, family life in Delhi in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing day-long games of cricket in the street. Everything changes whe ...Show more
The Winter War by Philip Teir
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class dream in Helsinki. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid government job. They live in a beautiful apartment in the centre of the city. But look closer and the cracks start to show. As he approaches hi ...Show more
The Haunted Season by G. M. Malliet
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Max Tudor
Something sinister is stirring at Totleigh Hall, the imposing manor house dominating the village of Nether Monkslip. Usually, the lord and lady of the manor are absent for most of the year, but this year they have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the goo ...Show more