The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
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Category: fiction a-z
Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow ...Show more
Chantic Bird:Text Classics by David Ireland; George Williamson
$12.95 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I'm only telling you this to let you know what a silly thing it is to live like I do. What it was, I got sacked from my seventeenth job for fighting or gambling - I don't know which - and because I was hardly ever there. I was gambling all right, but someone called me a cheat and swung at me, I moved my ...Show more
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
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Category: fiction a-z
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of Bernard and June Tremaine's marriage, as witnessed by their son-in-law, Jeremy, who seeks to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences that seem irr ...Show more
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
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Category: fiction a-z
On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as ...Show more
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: fiction a-z
The bestselling novel--and one of Barack Obama's summer reading picks--from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele. "From one of the world's great contemporary writers comes the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions ...Show more
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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Category: fiction a-z
"Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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Category: fiction a-z
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
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Category: classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anais Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Popular Penguins by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: classics | Series: Popular Penguins
This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a time where survival is all. Enter a ...Show more
The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne, his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whispe ...Show more
"The Drover's Wife" and Other Stories by Bail Murray
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Category: fiction a-z
Here is the updated edition of Murray Bail's remarkable collection of short stories, first published in 1975. In addition to established classics such as 'The Drover's Wife'and 'Huebler', this edition includes a number of new stories. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Vintage Classics
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more