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
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, ...Show more
Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller by Arthur Golden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, th ...Show more
After You (Me Before You #2) by Jojo Moyes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good
Jojo's new book, Still Me, the next book featuring Louisa Clark from Me Before You and After You, is available now "We all lose what we love at some point, but in her poignant, funny way, Moyes reminds us that even if it's not always happy, there is an ever after." --Miami Herald"You're going to feel u ...Show more
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Blue
The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portn ...Show more
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
"In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
The phenomenal international bestsellerBefore you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that ...Show more
The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
$29.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
In this debut novel from acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go), post-war Japan serves as the haunting backdrop to a subtle story of memory, suicide, and psychological trauma. Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent su ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
The Circle by Dave Eggers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The ...Show more