Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
$30.80 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet p ...Show more
The Sweet Hills of Florence by Jan Dickinson
$32.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'The Sweet Hills of Florence is a gloriously sweeping novel that spans time and distance between Italy and Australia, between Mussolini's Italy and that of Berlusconi, between past and present. It is a rich tapestry woven with skilful insight, of the culture and the times. In digging beneath the patina ...Show more
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
$18.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a dog's breakfast.' Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can ...Show more
The Nun by DIDEROT DENIS
$18.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and theunnatural life ...Show more
Quentin Blake's a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
This is a beautiful edition of the timeless Christmas classic. "A Christmas Carol" is the book that defines the Christmas spirit - literally. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts (of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come) ...Show more
The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens
$19.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, this title is an accessible and gently humorous take on the life of Jesus Christ and his teachings. It is suitable for those wanting to see a different, more intimate side to Dickens' p ...Show more
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
$21.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
$9.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London. After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goe ...Show more
Good harbour by Diamant, Anita
$27.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The author of the phenomenal bestseller The Red Tent again delves into the secret lives of women, with a contemporary novel that reaffirms her remarkable gifts as a natural storyteller. When Kathleen meets Joyce, each has come to a turning point in her life. Kathleen, whose sister died of breast canc ...Show more
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A beautiful and thought provoking novel: lost to history by the chronicles of men, here at last is the dazzling story of Dinah, Jacob's only daughter in the Book of Genesis. 'My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was brok ...Show more
Saree by Su Dharmapala
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Crossing continents and spanning decades, Saree is an epic story of beauty, oppression and freedom, for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Mosse. Nila wasn't born beautiful or powerful or rich - but she has a rare talent to tranform lives. She is a seamstress, and as she works she weaves into the saree s ...Show more
Bend It Like Beckham by Narinder Dhami
$16.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
If you're 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him, the world's your oyster right? Wrong. If you're Jess - 18, Indian and a girl - you can forget it. But whilst her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas, Jess joins a ladies football team and gets spotted by a talent scout.