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The Green Road by Anne Enright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the Booker Award-winning bestselling author of The Gathering, The Green Road is Anne Enright's virtuoso new novel, her most compelling and powerful to date A darkly glinting novel set mainly in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishnes ...Show more
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two year ...Show more
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
"Blood, Bones & Butterfollows the chef Gabrielle Hamilton's extraordinary journey through the places she has inhabited over the years- the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where sh ...Show more
Depends What You Mean by Extremist - Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables by John Safran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black p ...Show more
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angel ...Show more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving ...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
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
"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
Johnno by David Malouf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. But what is the truth about Johnno? Semi-autob ...Show more
All That I Am by Anna Funder
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller; her younger cousin Ruth and R ...Show more
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
"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