The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 b>'You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story ... fantastic' ZADIE SMITHak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents it was obvious from the way his fathe ...Show more
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
"A brilliant novel on international finance ... you will have serious trouble putting this book down." - Forbes. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, this was the first thriller set in the world money market that was written by an actual financial expert. Its fast-paced, suspenseful plot cent ...Show more
Who Ate up All the Shinga? - An Autobiographical Novel by Wan-suh Park; Young-nan Yu (Translator); Stephen Epstein (Translator)
$32.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, d ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
Outlander: The gripping historical romance from the best-selling adventure series (Outlander 1) by Diana Gabaldon
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Category: General | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: good
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. As seen on TV. Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century - and a lover in another. In 1946, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks throu ...Show more
Too Many Men by Lily Brett
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Category: General
Ruth Rothwax, a successful woman with her own business, Rothwax Correspondence, can find order and meaning in writing words for other people - condolence letters, thank-you letters, even you-were-great-in-bed letters. But as the daughter of Edek Rothwax, an Auschwitz survivor with a somewhat idiosyncrat ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
The Far Pavilions by M M Kaye
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Category: General
"The Far Pavilions" is the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between E ...Show more
Olympia: The Birth of the Games by John Martino
$59.99 AUD
Category: General
AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS In ancient Greece and across the Mediterranean, kingdoms strive for dominance. The great powers of Carthage and Egypt look on with avarice as the might of the Greeks is spent warring between themselves, oblivious to external dangers. Year in and year out, the people suffer at the hand ...Show more
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
'Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolano, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train' - Dave EggersWelcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children ...Show more