Remaking the Middle-east by Anthony Bulbalo
9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Not since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire has the Middle East been convulsed by so many events in such a short period of time. Uprisings, coups, and wars have seen governments overthrown, hundreds of thousands killed, and millions displaced. Parts of the region have become ungoverned or ungovernable. ...Show more
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary' Doris Lessing'I'm surprised it isn't the most famous book in the world' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers'She was close to the edge now: the ice laid its ...Show more
House of Gold by Natasha Solomons
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has al ...Show more
You Think It I'll Say It: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD: a dazzling, smart and razor-sharp first collection by the author of American Wife and Eligible. In 'The World Has Many Butterflies', a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing You think it, I'll say it, putting into wor ...Show more
The Terror: the novel that inspired the chilling BBC series by Dan Simmons
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Stephen King hailed Dan Simmons' bestselling novel as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror' and it's now a chilling 10-part AMC Original TV series from Ridley Scott. The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the ...Show more
Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1815- The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace - like home - is still a long way away.On the eve of the year 1815, the American sailors of the Eagle finally arrive at Dartmoor prison; bedraggled, exhausted but burning with hope. They?ve only had one thing to sustain them - a snatche ...Show more
The Heirs by Susan Rieger
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Heirs, the follow-up to Susan Rieger's critically acclaimed debut, wrestles with the nature of inheritance and legacy as it affects an unforgettable, upper-crust Manhattan clan. With great command, wit and charm, we are introduced to the inimitable Falkeses- five clever, charismatic brothers; their ...Show more
Raised from the Ground by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives of the family in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient. The past never remains in the past... London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war.14-year-o ...Show more
Munich by Robert Harris
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place.As Chamberlain?s plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer?s train steams south, two young men ...Show more
Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Moscow Trilogy Ser.
'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire a' Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. H ...Show more
Babylon by Yasmina Reza; Linda Asher (Translator)
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Prix Renaudot Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Elisabeth is a woman whose curiosity and passion far exceed the borders of her quiet middle-class life. She befriends a neighbor, organizes a small dinner party. And then, quite suddenly, finds herself embarked with him on an adventure that i ...Show more