The Lullaby of Polish Girls by Dagmara Dominczyk
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Anna lives in Brooklyn. But she didn't always. She grew up in Kielce, Poland, where the summers were long and the politics communist. When her parents were indicted for their alliance with anti-government forces, Anna had to flee her homeland, leaving her closest friends behind. Now an adult, she lives ...Show more
Indian Nocturne by Antonio Tabucchi
19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
'A lot of people lose their way in India ...it's a country specially made for that.' Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. Xavier has been missing for a year, and the only clues to his disappearance lie w ...Show more
An Absolute Deception by Lesley Lokko
19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Known as 'The Ice Queen', Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers. With an empire that stretches across continents, she's a truly global brand, in every sense. Yet despite her success, she's a mystery; a reclusive disciplined perfectionist who rarely grants ...Show more
Eating Lolly by Corrie Hosking
27.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Eighteen year old Mumma is pregnant and abandoned on a remote island by her respectable family. Forming an unlikey affection with Mister, a boy who knows all about abandonment, she is able to provide a stable life for her daughter Lolly. But she cannot protect her at school, where she is constantly bein ...Show more
Canada by Richard Ford
19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: good-very good
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank. They weren't reckless people, but in an instant, their actions alter fifteen-year-old Dell's sense of normal l ...Show more
The Siege by Ismail Kadare
23.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
The Ottoman Army - the most powerful the world had known by that time - lays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colourful host looms the great dark wall of the citadel that has to be overcome. Told partly through the personal narrative of one of the defenders, partly th ...Show more
The Successor by Ismail Kadare
22.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, by an author the Wall Street Journal called 'one of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language'. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered ...Show more
Time's Long Ruin: A Novel by Stephen Orr
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Category: FICTION
Nine-year-old Henry Page is a club-footed, deep-thinking loner, spending his summer holidays reading, roaming the melting streets of his suburb, playing with his best friend Janice and her younger brother and sister. Then one day Janice asks Henry to spend the day at the beach with them. He declines, a ...Show more
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
A deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, WONDER BOYS is a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER CLAY. Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching crea ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen (The Complete Fairy Tales) (PB) by Hans Christian Andersen
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Category: FICTION | Series: Special Editions
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: FICTION | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: FICTION | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more