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The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics
Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfection is the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage-two people who seem the least...
When Blackbirds Sing
At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences...
The Catherine Wheel
The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch...Searing skin, and petrifying metal and wood, it took possession of London...
Outbreak Of Love
Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go...
The Long Prospect
Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an Australian industrial town. Growing up neglected in a seedy boarding house,...
All The Green Year
Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I turned fourteen and went into the eighth grade; the year too...
The Cardboard Crown
Introduced by Brenda Niall This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply...
The Australian Ugliness
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In...
The Explorers: Text Classics
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent....
Terra Australis
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim...
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics
Introduced byPeter Goldsworthy Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature 2003 She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the...
The Jerilderie Letter
I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has...
Strine
How's your ebb tide? Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker? Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'? There was never any book...
The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills
Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he...
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics
A wonderful novel by one of Australia's most loved and awarded writers, long out of print and now revived by the Text Classics series. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary...
Dark Places: Text Classics
This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and...
Wake In Fright
The controller stood back. 'Right,' he said. 'Spin 'em!' The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down...
A Difficult Young Man
Introduced bySonya Hartnett Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956 Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it....
My Dog Gets a Job
From one of Australia's most-loved and prolific authors comes a funny and endearing tale about a boy called Eric and his dog Ugly. My Dog Gets a Job picks up...
My Dog Doesn't Like Me
One of our most-loved and prolific authors has written a beatifully told story that will resonate with pet lovers of all ages. My dog doesn't like me. It's a fact....
Matty Forever
An enchanting story of friendship, acceptance and trust from one of Australia's favourite storytellers. Bill and Matty are neighbours. And best friends. Together they share their deepest, darkest secrets and...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris, and tramping the streets and living in hostels in London. Down...
Animal Farm
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent...
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for
An incredible, absorbing new collection of interviews on contemporary society from Noam Chomsky - 'the world's greatest public intellectual' Observer In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the...
The World We Once Lived In
In 21 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the...
Bluey: Giant Activity Pad: Includes over 70 Stickers
Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Join Bluey and all of her friends in this Giant Activity Pad with over 70 stickers! Full of colouring pages and fun...
Bluey: Bluey and Friends: A Sticker Activity Book
Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Have fun with Bluey and Bingo and their friends. There are loads of games to play, stickers to place and much more!...
Bluey: Fun and Games: A Colouring Book
Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Colour in the grannies, a game of Featherwand, a trip to Rug Island and more in this fun-filled colouring book. Bluey is...
Bluey: Big Backyard: A Colouring Book
Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Colour Bluey's backyard, the creek, the playground and more in this fun-filled colouring book. Bluey is an award-winning preschool show about Bluey,...
Bluey: Time to Play!: Sticker Activity Book
Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Have fun with Bluey and Bingo as they play their favourite games! There are stickers to place, puzzles to solve and so...
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
In the Sea There Are Crocodiles
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boy's journey in search of a place to call home. I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate...
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
The original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet- getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way - now in paperback!...
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives! Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than...
Frankenstein: Popular Penguins
Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by...
The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
A collection of Wilde's most charming and well-loved tales, as part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous-...
Great Expectations
Author: Charles DickensFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 198mm, 409g, 592 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of...
The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Author: Sarah Pearse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The breakout bestselling crime thriller debut of 2021, The Sanatorium published with rave endorsements from Richard Osman, Lucy Foley and A...
Coming To Find You
Author: Jane Corry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The Sunday Times bestselling twisty, page-turning drama about family secrets, from thriller icon Jane Corry. You can run away from your...
Circle of Death: A ruthless killer stalks the globe. Can justice prevail? (The Shadow 2)
Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping vigilante thriller - inspired by a series of graphic novels - featuring a powerful hero on the trail of...
The Other Guest: A gripping thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Whispers
Author: Heidi Perks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Two women and two sides to the story. Whose do you trust? The gripping new thriller from besteslling author Heidi Perks....
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit (Now A Netflix Series)
Author: John Douglas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Mindhunter is a real-life, fascinating insight into the life of a FBI Special Agent, and the minds of the psychologically disturbed...
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Author: R. D. Laing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in...
Goodbye to Berlin
Author: Christopher Isherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal As Cabaret returns to the West End, revisit the KitKat Club in the...
Under the Jaguar Sun
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 First time in Penguin Modern Classics A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a...
Chippy Chasers: Chippy Jackpot
Author: Sam Cotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Who loves a delicious, hot, salty chippy? Seagull mates Steve-O, Stanley and Stacey do . . . A hilarious graphic novel...
Wool
Author: Hugh Howey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 An epic story of survival at all odds, now a major Apple TV series. NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY...
23rd Midnight: A serial killer behind bars. A copycat killer on the loose... (Women's Murder Club 23)
Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The thrilling new instalment in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke behind...