The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what ...Show more
Farmer Giles of Ham [Pocket Edition] by J R R Tolkien
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A commemorative golden anniversary edition of Tolkien's classic book, including a new introduction, a map, a copy of Tolkien's unpublished short story which he expanded for publication, his notes for an aborted sequel, and the original first edition illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Farmer Giles of Ham d ...Show more
The Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript called The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002, at a Sotheby's auction house. Now, 70 years after Kerouac wrote it, his second novel will be published for the first ...Show more
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
$19.99 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Fiction
Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown and the lines between reality and performance begin to bleed.A passionate affair with the scion of an Italian tyre empir ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$25.00 AUD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Obsessed by creating ...Show more
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and ...Show more
Stoner: A Novel by John Williams
$12.95 AUD
$14.99 (13% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the ...Show more
Dear Life by Alice Munro
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the ...Show more
The Hobbit Illustrated Edition by J R R Tolkien
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for more than 15 years contains 150 brand new colour illustrations. Artist Jemima Catlin's charming and lively interpretation brings Tolkien's beloved characters to life in a way that will entice and entertain a new generation of readers. Bilbo Baggins i ...Show more
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
$19.95 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Fiction
During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, ...Show more
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: CP
The book that was made into the highly succesful movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward NortonEvery weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as t ...Show more