Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; it ...Show more
The Bell in the Lake (#1 The Sister Bells Trilogy) by Lars Mytting
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Sister Bells Trilogy Ser.
"Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel" MAJA LUNDE, author of The History of Bees "An exquisitely atmospheric novel . . . The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you, if unfairly, to leave a little of your h ...Show more
The Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Sister Bells Trilogy Ser.
"Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match" JO NESBOThe Reindeer Hunters is the second in a thrilling historical trilogy that began with The Bell in the Lake.The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans liv ...Show more
Beowulf (Chartwell Classics)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
In this Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes. Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium CE, Beowulf is an Old English epic tale recounting the adventures of Beowulf, ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of th ...Show more
Point Zero by Seicho Matsumoto
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Thriller
Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to investigate his disappearance. When Kenichi's brothe ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Alma Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face ...Show more
As Red as Blood by Salla Simukka
$16.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Snow White Trilogy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Six of Crows--this international bestseller is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that chills to the bone, and not just because of the icy winter setting. Lumikki Andersson has made it a rule to stay out of things that do not involve her. She knows all too well that ...Show more
The Best of Lupin: Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Ars ne Lupin is a gentleman and a thief, a world-famous master of disguise and a planner of elaborate heists. His exploits are regularly splashed across newspaper pages, entertaining all of France as Inspector Ganimard of the Paris Police fruitlessly pursues him. Lupin often turns detective himself when ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical, and witty monologue ranges from general observations and phi ...Show more
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more
The Three-Body Problem: Now a major Netflix series by Cixin Liu
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy | Series: The\Three-Body Problem Ser. | Reading Level: very good-near fine
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists ...Show more