Fable (Prequel, World of the Narrows) by Adrienne Young
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Fable
Age range 12+ Filled with all of the action, emotion, and lyrical writing that brought readers to Sky in the Deep, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with a new captivating duology. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young ...Show more
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more
Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens 5 by Alison Weir
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Six Tudor Queens Ser.
'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The TimesAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen.'With characteristic ver ...Show more
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do you build up a sense of robust pride when your body has taught itself to be fearful? Fiona Murphy's memoir about being deaf is a revelation. Secrets are heavy, burdensome things. Imagine carrying a secret that if exposed could jeopardise your chances of securing a job and make you a social outca ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualiti ...Show more
Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions-exploring love and madness-is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972. The book concerns Ineko's mother and Kuno, the young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Mental Ho ...Show more
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these ...Show more
J R by William Gaddis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination with junk mail get-rich-quick offers. Responding to one, he sees a small return; soon, he is a running a massive Ponzi scheme out a phone booth in the school hal ...Show more
Dieter Rams: the Complete Works by Klaus Klemp
$89.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
The ultimate reference on one of the most influential product designers of all time For more than sixty years Dieter Rams has defined the look, feel, and function of some of the world's best-loved consumer items. Using his 'ten principles for good design' as a philosophy and practice for improving the i ...Show more
Murder Must Advertise : (Lord Peter Wimsey #10) by Dorothy L. Sayers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
The tenth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by bestselling crime writer Peter Robinson - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. Victor Dean fell to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, but no one se ...Show more
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fifteen-year-old Monk drifts through a monotonous existence in a grimy Chinatown apartment with her "grumpy brown couch" of a dad, until she meets high school senior Santa Coy (santacoyshotsauce@gmail.com). For a moment, it looks like he might be her boyfriend. But when Monk's dad becomes obsessed with ...Show more
Mortal Echoes - Encounters End by BUZWELL
$27.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
A strange figure foretells tragedy on the railway tracks. A plague threatens to encroach upon an isolated castle. The daughter of an eccentric scientist falls victim to a poisonous curse. The stories in this anthology depict the haunting moment when characters come face-to-face with their own mortality. ...Show more