Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra (1955 - 1964) by Paul Genoni, Tanya Dalziell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Biography Ser.
WINNER OF 2019 NONFICTION PM'S PRIZE Half the Perfect World is a social and literary account of the expatriate artist community on the Greek island of Hydra from 1955 to 1964, and is richly illustrated by LIFE Magazine eye-witness photographer James Burke. Fostered by celebrated Australian literary cou ...Show more
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information.' - Mazen Darwish, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus w ...Show more
Small Things Like These (HB) by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces i ...Show more
The Secret Life of Books by Tom Mole
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. Books are f ...Show more
Swimming Back to Trout River: A Novel by Linda Rui Feng
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A “beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration…and love” (Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s ...Show more
Pianos and Flowers Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. There are big stories in these simple pictures. In Pianos ...Show more
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'One of the most remarkable books I have ever read' Susan Jeffers One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, thi ...Show more
The Rabbits by Sophie Overett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize. A multigenerational family story with a dose of magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, very mild superpowers, loneliness and the strange connections we make in the places we least expect. The disappearance of Bo Rabbit in 1984 left the Rabbit w ...Show more