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Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now by Ellen van Neerven ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from acro ...Show more
Fury by Kathryn Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A raw, painfully honest, heartbreaking account of a young woman raising herself out of abuse and poverty to become her own hero. A roadmap of recovery and transformation, this is the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn't see heroism in the shape of a girl. At the age of twenty, after a ...Show more
Book Nerd by Holly Maguire
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
With over 7 million Instagram posts tagged #booknerd, and millions more tagged with the likes of #bookworm and #bibliophile, it's clear: Book nerds rule And what better gift than this joyous celebration of their singular passion. It's sweet, it's affectionate, it's understanding and clever, filled w ...Show more
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
$7.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a wh ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
The Giver (Giver Quartet #1) by Lois Lowry
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The Giver Quartet
Celebrate Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world in this 25th Anniversary Edition of The Giver. Includes a new afterword from Lois Lowry, as well as her Newbery acceptance speech. The Giver, Lois Lowry's Newbery Me ...Show more
The Beautiful Fall by Hugh Breakey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Read this now. Right now. Don't even think of going near that door. Not until you know what's going on. Your name is Robert Penfold. Age 31. The apartment you're standing in is your home. Every 179 days Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time it happened he wrote himself a letter expl ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Smith Rakoff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reig ...Show more
In Cold Blood (Popular Penguin) by Truman Capote
$12.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale - Vintage Classics by Margaret Atwood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird (50th Anniversary Edition) by Harper Lee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbiddin ...Show more