Room by Emma Donoghue
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. "Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days" Audrey Niffenegger "On ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONJack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.
The March by E.L. Doctorow
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Doctorow's new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major manoeuvres to bring the war to its conclusion. THE MARCH ranges widely over a diverse set of characters - ea ...Show more
Sister of My Heart by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
$20.85 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Born in the big, old Calcutta house on the same tragic night that both their fathers were mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins who share everything. But when Sudha discovers a terrible secret about the past, their mutual loyalty is tested.
Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spies about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another - a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn ap ...Show more
Woman's War - Mother's Home Front by DINAN Jacqueline
$27.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Rosie is not alone in her growing apprehension towards Australia's involvement in a war. Like many mothers, she feels helpless as her sons are swayed by the relentless pull of 'mateship' and are lured by the sense of 'adventure' awaiting them in another continent.While yearning for news from them in Nor ...Show more
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