Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Herge's Tintin cartoon adventures have been translated into more than fifty languages and read by tens of millions of children aged, as their publishers like to say, 'from 7 to 77'. Arguing that their characters are as strong and their plots as complex as any dreamt up by the great novelists, Tom McCart ...Show more
Orwell and Politics by George Orwell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literature
This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. They show the vast range of his political interests, with articles expressing his views on subjects from corrupt political language ...Show more
Guarded by Dragons - Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People by Rick Gekoski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks is scarce, carefully buried and often jealously guarded, knowledge of its hiding place shared through word of mouth like the myths of old.In Guarded by Dragons, Gekoski invites readers i ...Show more
The Breaking by Kathryn Heyman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Nominated for the Scottish Writer of the Year Award and the Orange Prize, The Breaking is a unique, lyrical testament to the power of the human spirit.
Under the Wave at Waimea by Paul Theroux
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime. The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still call him the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. When Joe accidentally hits and kills a man near Waimea while driving home from a bar after a night of ...Show more
Pieta by Michael Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
These are the last days of 1999. At St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, as the world waits for the new millennium, Lucy, a young Australian woman looks up at Michelangelo’s Pietà behind its pane of bullet-proof glass; a red kabbalah string circles her wrist. She has come with the mysterious parcel her recently ...Show more
Locust Summer by David Allan-Petale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Shortlisted for The Australian Vogel's Literary Award, Locust Summer celebrates the wide-open beauty of Australia's regions while exploring the heartbreaks that come from living on the land. On the cusp of summer, 1986, Rowan Brockman's mother asks if he can come home to Septimus in the Western Australi ...Show more
Afraid of the Light by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 80, No 2 by GREEN JONATHAN
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'The world knows that the Australian immigration process is very tough.' In the magazine's cover feature Still Lives, five people now resident in Australia and New Zealand tell in vivid first-hand accounts the stories of lives stilled by statelessness or detention, and lives settled in a new home and a ...Show more
French Braid by Anne Tyler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A stand-out new family novel from the critically acclaimed, Booker-prize shortlisted author of A Spool of Blue Thread The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the cha ...Show more
Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Clever and imaginative, Tell Me an Ending is a riveting and thought-provoking exploration of one of our most precious and fragile powers: the ability to remember the moments of our lives' KAREN THOMPSON WALKER 'An extraordinary novel-- intelligent and searching, with deep questions about humanity, hist ...Show more
The Silence of Water by Sharron Booth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
When Fan's mum, Agnes, announces the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes's father - a man they've never spoken of before now - Fan finds herself a stranger in a new town living in a home whose currents and tensions she cannot read or understand. Resentful of her mother's decision ...Show more