The Alphabet of Light and Dark by Danielle Wood
$21.95 AUD
Category: General
And as the waves take her apart, piece by piece, she watches the message of the lighthouse spelling itself out on the surface of the water. Its message is composed in the alphabet of light and dark. Flash, eclipse, flash, eclipse. If we see only the light, we are blinded; only the dark and we will never ...Show more
The Children by Charlotte Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
When their father is critically injured, foreign correspondent Mandy and her siblings return home, bringing with them the remnants and patterns of childhood. Mandy has lived away from the country for many years. Her head is filled with images of terror and war, and her homecoming to the quiet country to ...Show more
The One in A Million Boy by Monica Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A one-in-a-million story for anyone who loves to laugh, cry, and think about how extraordinary ordinary life can be. Not to be missed by readers who loved THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, ELIZABETH IS MISSING or THE SHOCK OF THE FALL. Miss Ona Vitkus has - aside from three months in the summer of ...Show more
Beautiful Messy Love by Tess Woods
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
What happens when love and loyalty collide? When football star Nick Harding hobbles into the Black Salt Cafe the morning after the night before, he is served by Anna, a waitress with haunted-looking eyes and no interest in footballers, famous or otherwise. Nick is instantly drawn to this exotic, intelli ...Show more
The Case for Literature by Gao Xingjian (transl. from Chinese Mabel Lee)
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
Eight brilliant essays from the Nobel Prize winning author of Soul Mountain. Constituting the kernel of Gao's thoughts on literature, translated by Sydney writer Mabel Lee. First published 2006.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize 'Astonishing and unsettling ...A masterwork' San Francisco Chronicle 'Announces Yanagihara as a major American novelist' Wall Street Journal Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic abou ...Show more
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The phenomenal 2002 Booker Prize-winning, international bestseller - now a much-loved classic of contemporary fiction.
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A heart-stopping debut about protest and riot . . .1999. Victor, homeless after a family tragedy, finds himself pounding the streets of Seattle with little meaning or purpose. He is the estranged son of the police chief of the city, and today his father is in charge of one of the largest protests in the ...Show more
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
"He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. he is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Hou ...Show more
Pao by Kerry Young
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A richly imagined, wholly engrossing and utterly captivating novel that tells the remarkable history of twentieth century Jamaica. I was just a boy when I come to Jamaica. Kingston, 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao steps off the ship from China with his mother and brother, after his father has d ...Show more
Scraps of Heaven by Arnold Zable
$23.95 AUD
Category: General
Romek and Zofia are trying to rebuild a life together, liberated from the shadow of the concentration camps. Merle Shanahan tiptoes around the volatile moods of her husband Miles. Mr Giancarlo, the aging patriarch, watches over the lives of his enormous family. Mr Sommers sits in silence on his verandah ...Show more
Thick Face Black Heart by Chin-Ning Chu
$24.99 AUD
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Thick Face is the shield. Thick faced people have the ability to put self-doubt aside. They refuse to accept the limitations that others impose on them, or the limitations we commonly impose on ourselves. Black Heart is a shield. It is the ability to take action without regard to how the consequences wi ...Show more