The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
19.95 AUD
45.00 (55% off)
Category: Military SPECIALS | Reading Level: very good
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Pushkin Blues | Reading Level: good-very good
A beautiful, heart-wrenching attempt to come to terms with a mother's suicide by one of Austria's greatest living writers.
The Tiny Star (HB) by Mem Fox
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Picture Books | Series: Ill Freya Blackwood
Once upon a time, although this happens all the time, a tiny star fell to earth . . . This touching and timeless story combines, for the first time, the talents of world-renowned author Mem Fox with the heartwarming illustrations of Freya Blackwood. These two luminaries craft a truly unique and moving s ...Show more
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: Fiction SPECIALS
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Very Good. The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow wh ...Show more
Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction
'In the same vein as Rosalie Ham, Brinsden weaves a compelling story of country Australia with all its stigmas, controversy and beauty.' Fleur McDonald Elise, a beautiful and artistic, if slightly brittle, city girl is rudely transplanted to the undulating, unforgiving plains of the Mallee when her husb ...Show more
488 Rules for Life - The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
RICHARD GLOVER: ''You won’t agree with all her rules – I, for one, am a great believer in the word “pash” – but there is a good laugh, and a lively argument, to be had on every page.'' 488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Applying truth and wit to ...Show more
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of PAST THE SHALLOWS and WHEN THE NIGHT COMES. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a ma ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals by Sami Bayly
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Children's Reference | Series: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020. Marvel as you enter the fascinating hidden world of ugly animals in this encyclopaedia of the animal kingdom's most unusual and beauty-challenged species. It's time for ugly animals to shine! With more than sixty ugly animals to explore, this compendium of the unusual celebrates ...Show more
Shell by Kristina Olsson
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction
A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia's history. Everywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw. The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept ... In 1965 as ...Show more
Bowraville by Dan Box
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 2 Crime
A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of the victims were Aboriginal. All three were killed within five months, between 1990 and 1991. The same white man was linked to each, but nobody was convicted. More than two decades later, homicide detecti ...Show more
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction
Terra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man's land "Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was ...Show more
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"I absolutely loved The Lost Man. I devoured it in a day. Her best yet!" Liane Moriarty The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman''s gra ...Show more