1984 by George Orwell
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
1Q84: The Complete Trilogy by Haruki Murakami
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: 1q84 Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems n ...Show more
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film e ...Show more
A Bakery in Paris: A Novel by Aimie K. Runyan
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre. ...Show more
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more
A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller.
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2023 Age Book of the Year Award - an astonishingly inventive, playful, witty, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers. Margaret Bryce, deceased mother of twins, has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. These days she spends time with her ...Show more
A Day of Fire - A Novel of Pompeii by Kate Quinn; Stephanie Dray; Ben Kane; Eliza Knight; Sophie Perinot; Victoria Alvear
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined anthology of stories following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts.Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of th ...Show more
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow (TVTI) by Amor Towles
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, THE NEW DAZZLING NOVEL BY AMOR TOWLES, OUT NOWOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD: a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV series starring Ewan McGregor_________________________'A wonderful book' - Tana French'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Chri ...Show more
A Life of Her Own by Ellen Feldman
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
When life doesn't give you a happily ever after ... New York City, 1945. The war is over, the men are coming home and life can go back to normal for young Fanny Fabricant. But when she loses her rosy future in a single instant, she is forced to reinvent her life and raise her daughter alone by sheer wi ...Show more