The True Story of Spit MacPhee: Text Classics by James Aldridge
12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
When young Spit MacPhee comes to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen fear for his future. Fyfe MacPhee is a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit has to fend for himself along the riverbank where they live. While some people feel that Spit can look after himself, ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
42.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.' Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his p ...Show more
The Department of Deceased Dragons - Stories From Another Universe by Daniel Brewster
10.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Rudolph the foul-mouthed reindeer. A dragon accused of racism. A cat-cop taking on the mob. A witch's dream to work in real estate... This wickedly playful collection breaks all the rules. Reignite your love of stories with these fresh fables—designed to leave you charmed, dazzled and bursting with laug ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
Grief and beauty by Franklin, Annie; Patel, Anita
45.00 AUD
Category: Art History
Grief and Beauty by south coast artist, Annie Franklin, and Canberra-based writer, Anita Patel, arose from the personal experience of the 2019 -20 bushfires. This beautiful limited edition book tells a story (in paintings and poems) of the impact of those fires. It portrays the changes in the forever a ...Show more
Middle Distance - A Graphic Memoir by Mylo Choy
29.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
This heartfelt graphic memoir takes us through the highs, lows, twists, and turns of the author's relationship with running, down the long road toward self-acceptance. A charming, heartwarming, and poignant story of running and self-acceptance, author/illustrator Mylo Choy's Middle Distance combines ...Show more
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
24.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
'This novel is a real, out-of-the-blue original. I've never read anything like it'New York Times Book Review THE MILLION-SELLING JAPANESE CRIME PHENOMENON, NOW A UK BESTSELLER.SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER.NAMED IN NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017.SIX FOUR.THE NIGHTMARE NO P ...Show more
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo; Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: World Literature | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the a ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries by Michael Sims
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly ...Show more
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (editor Tom Quirk)
34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, THE INNOCENTS ABROAD (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's perspective was fresh and irreverent: tour guides, he writes, 'interru ...Show more
Feldspar by Brendan Ryan
19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
Feldspar, the new collection of poetry from Brendan Ryan, is unflinching in its focus on rural landscapes, the treatment of farm animals and the humble lives of people often missing from poetry. There are odes to invigilators, truck drivers, a family member who took to walking, laments for dogs and the ...Show more
Apostles of Anarchy by Sandra Renew
19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Folklore
It's the 1970s and 1980s, and Sandra Renew, a young lesbian activist in Far North Queensland, is involved in some of the most politically charged moments in Australian history. From Pine Gap to civil rights marches in Queensland to the first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and beyond, Apostles of Anarchy ju ...Show more