The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A luminous and unforgettable tale of two women, destiny, and identity in AfghanistanKabul, 2007: The Taliban rules the streets. With a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can rarely leave the house or attend school. Their only hope lies in the ancient Afghan custom of bacha posh ...Show more
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus: Text Myth Series by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Myth | Reading Level: very good
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and m ...Show more
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
$18.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The stunning debut novel, from the author of A Little Life.It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality t ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai by Barbara Lazar
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained i ...Show more
The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A 21st-century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. Set in London, Paris, Capri and cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture, it works at the intersection between the real and the imagined. Its territory is you.
The Praise Singer by Mary Renault
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Athens, Pythagoras... "an exciting living image of the Ancient World on (a) grand scale" New York Times
The Princess and the Prick by Anita Lehmann
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Princess and the Prick is a feminist humour and gift book for adults highlighting the sexism that has exists in children's classics. 'I hate this book. It makes me look like a right prick.' Prince Charming 'A real wake-up call.' Sleeping Beauty Think Ladybird for Adults or Enid Blyton spoofs; T ...Show more
The Prize by Kim E. Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'Is that what you want to do? Peer into my soul and capture my flaws, for all to see?' As World War II draws to a close, Australian society is still deeply conservative. Homosexuality is illegal and the scourge of Modernism is infecting Australian art. When William Dobell paints a portrait of lover and ...Show more
The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Once, Theodora was little more than a slave, the daughter of a bear-keeper, running barefoot through the streets of Constantinople. Now she is Theou doron, 'the Gift of God', Empress of Byzantine Rome and the most powerful woman in the world. In Stella Duffy's compelling new novel, the beguiling and ext ...Show more
The Quarry: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut's devastating 1995 novel on guilt and the pursuit of justiceGive yourself up. Whatever you've done. They'll find you. In the end.A man with no name staggers down a lonely stretch of road that cuts through the simmering veld of rural South Africa. He is exhausted and hung ...Show more
The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration Trilogy - comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Doorand The Ghost Road- is the heart-rending story of the last two years of the First World War seen through the eyes of army psychologist William Rivers and damaged soldier Billy Prior. As Rivers struggles with th ...Show more