The Bookwomans Last Fling by John Dunning
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Traveling to Idaho to look at rare first-edition books, private investigator Cliff Janeway is disturbed by a horse owner's untimely death, a case that brings Janeway to the California Races at Golden Gate Fields and Santa Anita Park.
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, this novel draws us into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive.
The Briny Cafe by Susan Duncan
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Brimming with warmth and wit, Susan Duncan's first novel is a delicious tale of friendship and love, and the search for a place to call home.... Ettie Brookbank is the heart and soul of Cook's Basin, a sleepy cluster of dazzling blue bays where the only way home is by boat. However, as idyllic as her su ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
$16.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of treason and imprisoned in the terrifying Chateau d\\\'If. Many years later he escapes, discovers a secret fortune and tracks down his enemies to make them suffer for their crimes. The film version of the novel is due to be shown nationwide from 19th April 2002.
The Seamstress by Maria Duenas
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set from just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and through World War II, 'The Seamstress' follows the life of Sira Quiroga, a Spanish seamstress who becomes embroiled in a glamorous and dangerous world far from where she belongs, one filled with the idle rich and politically powerful. Abando ...Show more
The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky
$19.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The earth smelt strong to Matilda and full of things growing and dying all at the same time. She thought about the grey-green tangled bush at the end of her street, full of cowboys and Red Indians, waiting with their guns and their bows and arrows. She thought about the Japs and the Germans and the shin ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Beach by Robert Drewe
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
This international selection contains 25 stimulating, startling, moving, or humorous stories about the beach. Contributing authors include Paul Bowles, Italo Calvino, Nadine Gorgimer, Raymond Carver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and John Updike.
The Penguin Book of the City by Robert Drewe (Editor)
$19.75 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Symbol of humanity's energy, optimism, art and civilisation, the city is the fount of intellectual and sexual freedom - a continuing source of wonder and modernity. And yet, in an uncaring mood, the city can be overbearing, anonymous, alienating, even savage - with the ability to chill the soul.The urba ...Show more
Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
You wouldn't notice Mr Malik in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb-over - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lie a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his closest friends know it, but Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the local ...Show more