The Golden Age by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gilgameshis the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose ...Show more
The New Dark Age by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A young singer runs into the desert of gold rush Kalgoorlie; Chagall comes to Paris in the twenties; a hippie couple survey their ideals as Whitlam is deposed; a middle-aged man looks at his life after cancer on the eve of the millennium . . . Fourteen luminous stories from Joan London's award-winning c ...Show more
The Good Parents by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2009 Christina Stead Award for fictionMaya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they ...Show more
Giovanna's Navel by Ernest Van der Kwast
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A scintillating collection from the award-winning author of The Ice-Cream Makers and Mama Tandoori.The vivid characters in these stories share lives marked by coincidences, deeply felt passions, impulsive decisions, and missed opportunities. There's Ezio, a lonely apple-picker dangerously obsessed with ...Show more
Dunstan: One Man. Seven Kings. England's Bloody Throne. by Conn Iggulden
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
** 'Iggulden has created an intriguingly complex saint - flawed, spiteful and unreliable as the teller of his own tale. Through his eyes we watch the story of the making of England' The Times **From the critically acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden, comes a novel set in the red-blooded ...Show more
Congo Dawn by Katherine Scholes
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You can't go back and change the past. All you have left is the future.Melbourne secretary Anna Emerson's life is turned upside down when a stranger hands her a plane ticket to the Congo. The newly independent country is in turmoil, Simba rebels are on the move - but the invitation holds a precious clue ...Show more
The Rising Sea (The NUMA Files #15) by Clive Cussler; Graham Brown
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\NUMA Files Ser.
A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Novel from the Numa® FilesAn alarming rise in the world's sea levels -- much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt -- sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they fi ...Show more
Exhibit Alexandra by Natasha Bell
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This story I have to tell is more than a collection of facts. It's more than the 'real-life' shockers you read in the papers. I have no reason to paint a better or worse picture than what really happened. I've already lost everything. I live within four walls. I've been tied up and drugged. I have no ho ...Show more
The Unmourned: Book Two, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women. Inmate Grace O'Leary has made it her mission to protect the women from his nocturnal visits and when Church is murdered with an awl thrust through his right eye, she b ...Show more
An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Mini Modern Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski; William Brand
2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland.
New York City in 1979 (Mini Modern Classics) by Kathy Acker
2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 27
Intense sexual desire is the greatest thing in the world.' A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker.