The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
$49.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
At the centre of this intriguing, irresistible novel are the young Lambs: Charles, constrained by the tedium of his work as a clerk at the East India Company, taking refuge in a drink or three too many while spreading his wings as a young writer, and his clever, adoring sister Mary, confined by domestic ...Show more
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. ...Show more
The Zookeeper's Wife - The true story of an unlikely heroine by Diane Ackerman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Bestseller, 2008 Orion Book Award winner -- When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw -- and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside th ...Show more
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Shortlisted for Palestine Book Award Nahr has been confined to the Cube- nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The wor ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed b ...Show more
The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
One of the great untold love stories - how the Grimm brothers discovered their famous fairy tales - filled with drama and passion, and taking place during the Napoleonic Wars. Growing up next door to the Grimm brothers in Hesse-Cassel, a small German kingdom, Dortchen Wild told Wilhelm some of the most ...Show more
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The\Books of Babel Ser.
'Witty and downright hilarious . . . a perfect feel-good romantic comedy' Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss QuotientA NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Discover a witty and swoonworthy romance from the New York Times bestselling duo behind Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating and Roomies. Perfect ...Show more
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Family saga spanning 3 continents and 3 generations set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war.
STANDING STRONG by Fiona McCallum
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Mira Ser.
The sequel to the much-loved Wattle Creek. Former city girl Jacqueline Havelock, Wattle Creek's newly arrived psychologist, has settled in to country life and is slowly coming to terms with the town's quirky ways. Farmer Damien McAllister's plans with his animal welfare venture are falling into place n ...Show more
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
$50.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Buru Quartet
Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.
Shooting Kabul by N. H. Senzai
$13.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The\Kabul Chronicles Ser. | Reading Level: 10+
In the summer of 2001, twelve year old Fadi's parents make the difficult decision to illegally leave Afghanistan and move the family to the United States. When their underground transport arrives at the rendezvous point, chaos ensues, and Fadi is left dragging his younger sister Mariam through the crush ...Show more