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The Handmaid's Tale - Vintage Classics by Margaret Atwood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good
"Tie-in edition with the film adaptation of the global bestseller, The Light Between Oceans, one of the most successful Australian novels of recent years. Produced by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and directed by Derek Cianfrance, the highly anticipated film stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: good
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more
Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
I have no use for forgiveness, not yet. But other ideas like that, kindness, for example, I think that is fundamental. Resurrection; I like that too. And love, of course, love, love, love.'Alice Murray learns to play the piano aged three on an orange orchard in rural Australia. Recognising her daughter? ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin; William Bynum (Editor, Notes by, Introduction by); Janet Browne (Editor); Damien Hirst (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's classic treatise on his theory of evolution and natural selection and is among the most important works in the history of science and evolutionary biology. When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down...let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind (#1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Bks.
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill; Arthur R. Pell (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
This book contains money-making secrets that can change your life. Think and Grow Rich, based on the author's famed Law of Success, represents the distilled wisdom of distinguished men of great wealth and achievement. Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success was the direct inspiration for this boo ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
PATTERNED PLANET: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americ ...Show more