Blueback

Tim Winton

Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets when diving. A...

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Mis rables is one of the great works of western literature. Victo...

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (HB)

Caroline Elkins

'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindAsearing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bareits pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain'...