Secret Agent Man Goes Shopping for Shoes (HB) by Tim Wynne-Jones
24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
Secret Agent Man (S.A.M.) needs new shoes. His mum - er, sidekick, "K" - takes him shopping. But the mission will be dangerous. To start with, Shoe Store Man looks shifty. "Search him," says S.A.M. With the help of a Team of Expert Spies and keen observation skills, will Sam find that his brand-new tige ...Show more
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly - Amazon - Hudson Booksellers - Washington Post Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Comm ...Show more
Bea's Bad Day : A Big Bright Feelings Book by Tom Percival
16.99 AUD
Category: Avenue Staff Picks
Bea is REALLY looking forward to her birthday ... until things begin to go wrong. A book about managing disappointment, from the bestselling author of the Big Bright Feelings series.Be open, be honest, be you! Big Bright Feelings for little people. Bea CAN'T WAIT for her birthday. There are only three d ...Show more
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is struggling to twist feminism toward ...Show more
Mrs Wordsmith Vocabularious Card Game by Wordsmith
45.00 AUD
Category: Avenue Staff Picks
Engage kids' imaginations and creative storytelling with a laugh-out-loud card game!Do you have the words to describe a nervous sidekick? An attention-seeking unicorn? A dangerously spicy sauce? May the best storyteller win!Storyteller's Card Game, for ages 7+, teaches rich, descriptive vocabulary to he ...Show more
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The doomed hero of The Tragedy of Arthur is Arthur Phillips, a young man struggling with a larger-than-life father, a con artist who works wonders of deception but is a very unreliable parent. Arthur is raised in an enchanted world of smoke and mirrors where the only certain fact is his father's and bel ...Show more
Red or Dead by David Peace
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England. A ...Show more
From the Coolest Corner: Nordic Jewellery by Liesbeth den Besten
69.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles | Reading Level: near fine
'From the Coolest Corner - Nordic Jewellery' presents groundbreaking and fresh jewellery from Northern Europe, a comprehensive selection of current works by artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic States. The best and most innovative Scandinavian art jewellery is presented, ...Show more
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner: Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist 2015 Literary Fiction Of The Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015 Debut Fiction, Indie Book Awards 2015 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013 Shorlisted: ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writers 2015 UTS Glenda Adams Debut Fic ...Show more
Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
11.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The captivating debut novel from the winner of the Camera D'Or "Hugely funny and peopled with a cast of characters I came to treasure like my own friends, Rush Oh! reminded me why I love reading." Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites When Mary Davidson, the eldest daughter of a whaling family ...Show more
Mummy Days by Sue deGennaro
17.99 AUD
Category: Avenue Staff Picks
Hooray! It's Mummy Day. Some days are full of tree climbing, cloud watching, and games of hide-and-seek. Other days are for rushing through the shops or answering emails. But no matter what kind of Mummy Day it is, there's always fun to be had and hugs to be shared. A book to celebrate the unique bond t ...Show more
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts learns that his mother has been the victim of a brutal attack by a man on their North Dakota reservation. Joe's mother is traumatized and afraid. She takes to her bed, and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police; meanwhile his father, a tribal ju ...Show more