Lula Dean's Little Library Of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
'A story that's as furious as it is tender' EMILY HENRY on The Change From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship. In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town's reading habits. All banned books have been remov ...Show more
The Girl with the Violin by Shelley Davidow
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
A powerful love story in which one woman's quest for identity and healing also becomes the single way she can honour her grandparents, whose lives were irreversibly shattered by the Holocaust. Perfect for readers of Anna Funder and Megan Rogers. It's 1989 and for a young Jewish-Australian violinist, a ...Show more
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
34.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to control. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her fam ...Show more
The Third Love by Hiromi Kawakami
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny. Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by cha ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
26.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION 'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!' ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
22.99 AUD
Category: World Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
How to Make a Bomb: A Novel by Rupert Thomson
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
If he suddenly found what surrounded him unbearable, it was because it was artificialEverything had been designed and manufactured, and he was trapped in itPhilip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpecte ...Show more
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
26.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-law ...Show more
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami; Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: a new edition of the bestselling Japanese novel, by the Akutagawa Prize-winning author
Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends - Gift Edition by Frederick H. Martens; Richard Wilhelm; Lucrezia Botti
37.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Fearless heroes, feisty princesses, sly magicians, terrifying dragons, talking foxes and miniature dogs. They all feature in this enthralling compendium of Chinese fairy tales and legends, along with an array of equally colourful characters and captivating plots.Although largely unknown in the West, the ...Show more
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
22.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catc ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
27.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offer ...Show more