An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Mini Modern Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski; William Brand
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as 'the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which ...Show more
Dunstan: One Man. Seven Kings. England's Bloody Throne. by Conn Iggulden
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
** 'Iggulden has created an intriguingly complex saint - flawed, spiteful and unreliable as the teller of his own tale. Through his eyes we watch the story of the making of England' The Times **From the critically acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden, comes a novel set in the red-blooded ...Show more
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Phillip Marlowe
Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly ...Show more
The Good Parents by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2009 Christina Stead Award for fictionMaya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they ...Show more
The New Dark Age by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A young singer runs into the desert of gold rush Kalgoorlie; Chagall comes to Paris in the twenties; a hippie couple survey their ideals as Whitlam is deposed; a middle-aged man looks at his life after cancer on the eve of the millennium . . . Fourteen luminous stories from Joan London's award-winning c ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gilgameshis the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose ...Show more
Summertime by J.M Coetzee
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in th ...Show more
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Trout Operais a stunning epic novel that encompasses twentieth-century Australia.Opening with a Christmas pageant on the banks of the Snowy River in 1906 and ending with the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, it is the story of simple rabbiter and farmhand Wilfred Lampe who, at the end ...Show more
Kings In Grass Castles by Mary Durack
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
" ... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a greart family and of a series of great actions. The Bulletin When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a profoun ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour and frailty. Grace is taking a break from writing a long novel and seems to be losing her grip on daily life in London. She feels more and more like a migratory bird as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life in Engl ...Show more
Rohypnol by Andrew Hutchinson
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fact: bad people do bad things. In the new age of money, drugs, and instant satisfaction, you make your own rules. You take what you want--not ask. There is no responsibility. There is no guilt. If someone burns you, you should do the same to them. It's an issue of equality. Andrew Hutchinson brilliantl ...Show more