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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 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....
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...
An Iron Rose: Text Classics
The classic thriller by the five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award The pain seemed to dissolve. Cold and rough tarmac against the face, chill wind down here at ground...
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...
They're a Weird Mob
Who the hell's Nino Culotta. That's what you asked yourself when you first picked up this book, wasn't it? Well I'm Nino Culotta. My father baptised me Giovanni-John-well Giovannino is...
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...
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...
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...
The Things We Leave Unfinished
A TikTok sensation! This is an epic and emotional romance about the risks we take for love and the endings we don't see coming When Georgia Stanton discovers that her...
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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is edited with a critical introduction by Peter...
Heroes and Villains
One of two strange and compelling Angela Carter novels, new to Penguin Modern Classics Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and...
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-...
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...
Private Beijing: A brutal attack. An agent missing. (Private 17)
Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 After Private Beijing is targeted, Jack Morgan must investigate a deadly plot in unfamiliar territory in the latest instalment of the...
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Author: Julian Sancton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica **A Times Best...
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...
My Life in Dire Straits: The Inside Story of One of the Biggest Bands in Rock History
Author: John Illsley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The first and only inside story of the global music phenomenon Dire Straits, with a foreword by Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits...
Oh William!: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
Author: Elizabeth Strout Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The top ten Sunday Times bestselling portrait of a marriage Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating...
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Author: Donald Trump Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work, a first-hand account of the rise...
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Author: Daniel Coyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A ground-breaking exploration of how successful groups operate - whether in sport, business or society as a whole - and what...
Wham! George & Me: Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Andrew Ridgeley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited and lovingly told story of Andrew, George and their time together as WHAM! THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER For the...
New Grub Street
Author: George Gissing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their reputations in...
The Woman in Black
Author: Susan Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express 'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express Read the truly terrifying classic English ghost story behind the play. Arthur Kipps,...