The Colonel and the Eunuch by Mai Jia; Dylan Levi King (Translator)
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The phenomenal #1 Chinese bestseller, with over 3 million copies sold. This is a searing exploration of what makes a hero: a literary masterpiece, available in the English language for the very first time.The boy grows up in a small village in south China listening to stories about the Colonel: some say ...Show more
Summer Heat by Defne Suman
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Vivid, evocative and tender.' Elif Shafak 'In our family, secrets were buried deep like treasure, never to be spoken of...' 1974. Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But she's scared. She can tell from her parents' urge ...Show more
Hill 112 - A Novel of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy by Adrian Goldsworthy
42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A gripping story of friendship and division in the midst of warfare, set against one of the most dramatic, dangerous, and crucial campaigns of World War II: the Battle of Normandy. They went to war as boys. Will they make it home as men? D-Day. June 6th, 1944. The trajectory of the Second World War - ...Show more
Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them and why. What are ...Show more
Dangerous Women by Hope Adams
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Named one of 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Novels by Oprah Magazine ∙ Cosmopolitan ∙ and more! Nearly two hundred condemned women board a transport ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. From debut author Hope Adams comes a thrilling novel based on the 1841 voyage of the convict s ...Show more
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (TV tie-in) by Susanna Clarke
21.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
NOW A MAJOR SEVEN-PART BBC TV SERIES. Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me ...The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But schola ...Show more
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence tha ...Show more
Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
39.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there.To begi ...Show more
Wandering Stars by Sholom Aleichem
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In a small shtetl in Bessarabia in the early twentieth century, a traveling Yiddish acting company comes to town. The townspeople react in unison: 'What is this? Actor-types? Comedians? Who needs them'? But for Reisel, daughter of a poor cantor, and Leibel, son of a rich man, the theatre is magic, and t ...Show more
The Wayward Moon by Janice Weizman
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The year is 854. Rahel, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, is preparing to meet her fianc for the first time. She cannot know that even as she stands observing herself in the mirror, an enemy of her father is making his way to her house. In mere minutes, she will have to flee, leaving behind her fianc, her home ...Show more
Travelling Cat Chronicles (HB) by Hiro Arikawa; Philip Gabriel (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning hardback edition of this word-of-mouth hit - perfect for gifting. RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF INTERNATIONAL READERS - the tender feel-good story of a man's journey around Japan with a street cat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. INCLUDES 6 EXQUSITE LINE-DRAWINGS. A WATE ...Show more
The Rosie Result (C-format) by Graeme Simsion
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Don Tillman Ser. | Reading Level: very good
I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began...' Don and Rosie are back in Melbourne after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school- his teachers say he isn't fitting in with the other kids. Meanwhi ...Show more