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
The Artist's Portrait by Julie Keys
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: 1920 Sydney ; Richelle Prize ; | Reading Level: near fine
A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn't her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an unfriendly woman who sprays her with a hose as she passes by. When they do talk: Murie ...Show more
The Tiger Catcher (End of Forever #1) by Paullina Simons
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The End of Forever Series | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Can true love ever die? The first novel in a beautiful, heartbreaking new trilogy from Paullina Simons, the international bestselling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman. Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. Surrounded by friends, he is young, handsome, and runs a successful business. Everyt ...Show more
The Collaborator by Diane Armstrong
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Is he a hero or a traitor? Based on astonishing true events set in the darkest days of World War II in Budapest, this is an enthralling story of heroism, vengeance, passion, and betrayal. It is also the story of three women linked by a secret that threatens to destroy their lives. For readers of The Tat ...Show more
The Rich Man's House by Andrew McGahan
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An unputdownable final novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The White Earth. In the freezing Antarctic waters south of Tasmania, a mountain was discovered in 1642 by the seafaring explorer Gerrit Jansz. Not just any mountain but one that Jansz estimated was an unbelievable height of twe ...Show more
Address Unknown by Philippe Sands (Introduction by); Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of letters between a Jew in America and his German friend, Kressmann Taylor's classic novel is a haunting tale of a society poisoned by Nazism.First published in 1938, Address Unknown met with immediate success in ...Show more
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Who was the real George Eliot?In Love with George Eliotis a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman novelist as you've never read it before. Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society ...Show more
Grandmothers by Salley Vickers
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Grandmothers follows four grandmothers - Blanche, who can't seem to stop stealing things from the local pharmacy; Minna, who just wants a quiet life in her shepherd's hut, though the local children have other ideas; Cherry, who's adjusting to life in a care home; and Nan, whose favourite occupation is r ...Show more
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace, and uncommon power."--Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf "The Freedom Artist represents a heady jumble of influence and inspiration, a tapestry of biblica ...Show more