{"title":"Prize Winners - Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and more","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9780007480999-the-mirror-and-the-light-the-wolf-hall-trilogy","title":"The Mirror and the Light (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Hilary Mantel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Format: Hardback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Number of Pages: 912\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for other books by Hilary Mantel?  Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/collections\/hilary-mantel\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. A Guardian Book of the Year * A Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A Sunday Times Book of the Year * A New Statesman Book of the Year * A Spectator Book of the Year 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century' Observer 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39267046719685,"sku":"9780007480999","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780007480999.jpg?v=1626849381"},{"product_id":"9781784742324-the-testaments-the-booker-prize-winning-sequel-to-the-handmaids-tale","title":"The Testaments: The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Margaret Atwood\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 432\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e** WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 **  ** SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **  BOOK OF THE YEAR- Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Stylist, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardian, The Times, Observer, Red  Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.  More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.  Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice- a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.  As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.   'Dear Readers- Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.' Margaret Atwood","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39267449831621,"sku":"9781784742324","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781784742324.jpg?v=1626863738"},{"product_id":"9780062315007-the-alchemist-25th-anniversary-a-fable-about-following-your-dream","title":"The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Paulo Coelho\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 208\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn international bestseller   Over 80 million copies sold worldwide  A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick    A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.  Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.  Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different-and far more satisfying-than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39267455238341,"sku":"9780062315007","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/0062315005.jpg?v=1626848050"},{"product_id":"9780008340049-one-two-three-four-the-beatles-in-time","title":"One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Craig Brown\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 656\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020  A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the Year * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A Sunday Times Book of the Year  From the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.    John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter morning'. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Loenard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them 'little sissies'. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. No one has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, 'Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.'  One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher.  From the bestselling author of Ma'am Darling comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39379017138373,"sku":"9780008340049","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_2077c8dd-31a3-409b-9694-2aeb4ae794a2.jpg?v=1615786005"},{"product_id":"9781786070159-the-sellout-winner-of-the-man-booker-prize-2016","title":"The Sellout: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Paul Beatty\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 304\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent)    'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times  'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian  'The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times    A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.    Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral.    What's more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.    In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry, The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39662260486341,"sku":"9781786070159","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781786070159.jpg?v=1626848728"},{"product_id":"9781786891686-life-of-pi","title":"Life Of Pi","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Yann Martel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 336\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne boy, one boat, one tiger . . .  After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39709761568965,"sku":"9781786891686","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_b7a7e7db-f581-43ed-915c-d3c023db5321.jpg?v=1620193533"},{"product_id":"9781780749761-a-brief-history-of-seven-killings","title":"A Brief History of Seven Killings","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Marlon James\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 704\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015* JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters - slum kids, drug lords, journalists, prostitutes, gunmen, and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39811174498501,"sku":"9781780749761","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_894d5e38-7c36-4e4c-bbdf-7b933f48783e.jpg?v=1621487749"},{"product_id":"9781838953942-the-white-tiger","title":"The White Tiger","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Aravind Adiga (Author)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 336\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse.  Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur... murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. Amid cockroaches, call-centres, thirty-six-million gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39823556542661,"sku":"9781838953942","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_a909e553-5ba4-43af-b1dd-0c9d9b16d5b3.jpg?v=1626848763"},{"product_id":"9781760896430-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang","title":"True History of the Kelly Gang","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Peter Carey\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 496\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrue History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw.  As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39870648058053,"sku":"9781760896430","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_32c913dd-5fd8-4e1e-9158-f630e9aa1e1a.jpg?v=1626847798"},{"product_id":"9780241984994-girl-woman-other-winner-of-the-booker-prize-2019","title":"Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Bernardine Evaristo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 464\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people  Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet.  Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados.  Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s squatters' palace.  Morgan, who used to be Megan, is blowing up on social media, the newest activist-influencer on the block.  Twelve very different people, mostly black and female, more than a hundred years of change, and one sweeping, vibrant, glorious portrait of contemporary Britain. Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country- ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39870663655621,"sku":"9780241984994","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_474fb536-9f4f-4923-bb32-59b122b54e27.jpg?v=1622180020"},{"product_id":"9781784708214-the-testaments-the-booker-prize-winning-sequel-to-the-handmaids-tale","title":"The Testaments: The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Margaret Atwood\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 448\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades-  What happened to Offred?  THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE  'The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne Enright  The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes?   Now with additional material- book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about the real-life events that inspired The Testaments and The Handmaid's Tale. _________________________________  PRAISE FOR THE TESTAMENTS-  'Everything The Handmaid's Tale fans wanted and more. Prepare to hold your breath throughout, and to cry real tears at the end' Stylist  'Atwood challenges us constantly and poses the question that lies like a pearl inside the shell of this frighteningly readable novel, \"Before you sit in judgement, how would you behave in Gilead?''' Sunday Telegraph  'She manages to write about the darkest and most terrifying parts of human psychology in a way that is still deeply funny and full of dark strange hope' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power  'A plump, pacy, witty and tightly plotted page-turner... Atwood is on top form' Observer  'She is one of the greatest writers of the past century' Sunday Times  'How did she manage to make darkness feel so effortless? How did she think to inject humour where no humour should exist? Because she's Margaret Atwood, and she can do anything' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39870671290565,"sku":"9781784708214","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_2c8d77cd-beec-4b99-86eb-034c84bcedbb.jpg?v=1622180111"},{"product_id":"9780241458877-the-plague","title":"The Plague","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Albert Camus\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 368\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlbert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage  The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease- some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39870703009989,"sku":"9780241458877","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_eb76bff9-e62a-4755-988b-e62228468ab4.jpg?v=1626847696"},{"product_id":"9781526622426-piranesi-shortlisted-for-the-womens-prize-2021","title":"Piranesi: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Susanna Clarke\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 272\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, FINANCIAL TIMES, i PAPER, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, TIME MAGAZINE, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BBC CULTURE, NETGALLEY AND THE CHURCH TIMES  The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE \u0026amp; MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' New York Magazine  Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.  In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.  Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?  Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.   The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.   *****   'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being ... Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box' DAVID MITCHELL 'It subverts expectations throughout ... Utterly otherworldly' Guardian 'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' MADELINE MILLER 'Brilliantly singular' Sunday Times 'A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery ... This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN 'Head-spinning ... Fully imagined and richly evoked' Telegraph","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39915718475973,"sku":"9781526622426","price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_c13dadb0-2817-4e2e-9999-d03208c2e1f3.jpg?v=1622951494"},{"product_id":"9780008366759-wolf-hall-hb","title":"Wolf Hall HB","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Hilary Mantel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40038341476549,"sku":"9780008366759","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/GhNLFDvrmK13yaNujBOzNXjX5jqs-GuOC6lOmSmAiwBWNw_60_60_27f33d65-4b2a-4a54-a276-c40dbb3abf26.jpg?v=1624875136"},{"product_id":"9780008366759-wolf-hall-the-wolf-hall-trilogy","title":"Wolf Hall (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Hilary Mantel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 672\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award  `Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail  'Our most brilliant English writer' Guardian England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.  Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.  From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40038342721733,"sku":"9780008366759","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/GhNLFDvrmK13yaNujBOzNXjX5jqs-GuOC6lOmSmAiwBWNw_60_60.jpg?v=1624839524"},{"product_id":"9781760897963-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang","title":"True History of the Kelly Gang","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Peter Carey\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 496\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel.  As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at fifteen, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. There are no sentences like these in all Australian literature and yet they could only have grown from our soil.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40238480031941,"sku":"9781760897963","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781760897963.jpg?v=1627640183"},{"product_id":"9780099302780-guns-germs-and-steel-20th-anniversary-edition","title":"Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Jared Diamond\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 592\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years; now with a new afterword to mark the 20th anniversary of publication    'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens     Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?    Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians.     An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world.    **WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE**    **Over One Million Copies Sold**","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40238512931013,"sku":"9780099302780","price":25.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780099302780.jpg?v=1627619719"},{"product_id":"9780099540977-beloved","title":"Beloved","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Toni Morrison\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 352\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish.  INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word- Beloved.**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40536372084933,"sku":"9780099540977","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/4S3yUAVb5uf7_ceZ_4vHOsR6AgilrGLtHf6Uot1q0Dmpkw_60_60.jpg?v=1630991923"},{"product_id":"9780062564474-to-the-edges-of-the-earth-1909-the-race-for-the-three-poles-and-the-climax-of-the-age-of-exploration","title":"To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Edward Larson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 384\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the National Outdoor Book Award   From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a \"suspenseful\" (WSJ) and \"adrenaline-fueled\" (Outside) entwined narrative of the race to the top, bottom, and heights of the world: in 1909 three daring expeditions, led by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Peary, and the dashing Duke of the Abruzzi, set out for the North and South Poles and the summit of K2, pushing the limits of human exploration to the extreme.  As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration-set at the world's frozen extremes-lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called \"Third Pole,\" the pole of altitude, located in unexplored heights of the Himalaya. Before the calendar turned, three expeditions had faced death, mutiny, and the harshest conditions on the planet to plant flags at the furthest edges of the Earth.  In the course of one extraordinary year, Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson were hailed worldwide at the discovers of the North Pole; Britain's Ernest Shackleton had set a new geographic \"Furthest South\" record, while his expedition mate, Australian Douglas Mawson, had reached the Magnetic South Pole; and at the roof of the world, Italy's Duke of the Abruzzi had attained an altitude record that would stand for a generation, the result of the first major mountaineering expedition to the Himalaya's eastern Karakoram, where the daring aristocrat attempted K2 and established the standard route up the most notorious mountain on the planet.    Based on extensive archival and on-the-ground research, Edward J. Larson weaves these narratives into one thrilling adventure story. Larson, author of the acclaimed polar history Empire of Ice, draws on his own voyages to the Himalaya, the arctic, and the ice sheets of the Antarctic, where he himself reached the South Pole and lived in Shackleton's Cape Royds hut as a fellow in the National Science Foundations' Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.    These three legendary expeditions, overlapping in time, danger, and stakes, were glorified upon their return, their leaders celebrated as the preeminent heroes of their day. Stripping away the myth, Larson, a master historian, illuminates one of the great, overlooked tales of exploration, revealing the extraordinary human achievement at the heart of these journeys.   ","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40662366519493,"sku":"9780062564474","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_9ac155e3-ba6a-49ca-ab70-29e0c3b97f14.jpg?v=1632794985"},{"product_id":"9780805090031-bring-up-the-bodies","title":"Bring Up the Bodies","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Hilary Mantel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 410\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award   The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn   Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice.   At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head?   Bring Up the Bodies is one of The New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2012, one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 and one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2012","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40742017892549,"sku":"9780805090031","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780805090031.jpg?v=1634182291"},{"product_id":"9780857058799-a-long-night-in-paris-winner-of-the-crime-writers-association-international-dagger","title":"A Long Night in Paris: Winner of the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Dov Alfon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 432\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a former Israeli spy, comes the most realistic and authentic thriller of the year.     The Times Number One Bestseller    Winner of the CWA International Dagger.    A Times, Telegraph and FT pick for Summer Reads 2019    \"The year's best espionage thriller\" Daily Telegraph Best Books of 2019    \"Breathlessly exciting\" Marcel Berlins, The Times.    \"Races along with pace and verve\" Adam LeBor, Financial Times    \"A genuinely thrilling espionage novel\" John Williams, Mail on Sunday    \"A deeply enjoyable espionage thriller\" Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph.    When an Israeli tech exec disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. Colonel Zeev Abadi, the new head of Unit 8200's Special Section, just happens to have arrived on the same flight.    For Commissaire Leger of the Paris Police, all coincidences are suspect. When a second young Israeli from the flight is kidnapped, this time at gunpoint from his hotel room, his suspicions are confirmed - and a diplomatic crisis looms. As the race to identify the victims and the reasons behind their abductions intensifies, a covert Chinese commando team watches from the rooftops, while hour by hour the morgue receives fresh bodies from around Paris.    This could be one long night in the City of Lights.    Translated from the Hebrew by Daniela Zamir","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40797174792389,"sku":"9780857058799","price":7.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_68a3f137-1ca1-4fe5-a41a-0972696f5a93.jpg?v=1635296825"},{"product_id":"9781101908204-oscar-and-lucinda-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang","title":"Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Peter Carey \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages: 952\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume. Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. The resulting narrative tangle of love, commerce, religion, and colonialism culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, but to his own people he is a hero defying the authority of the English. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42033970708699,"sku":"9781101908204","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781101908204.jpg?v=1648093741"},{"product_id":"9780140147476-hotel-du-lac","title":"Hotel du Lac","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Anita Brookner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 192\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReissue of Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel  'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'  Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed . . .","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42444731351259,"sku":"9780140147476","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_0eed0573-7f63-469f-8c5c-0fffdcae055b.jpg?v=1644232386"},{"product_id":"9780241503041-the-dead-are-arising-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-for-biography","title":"The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Les Payne\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 640\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe definitive biography of Malcolm X- \"fascinating and essential\" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative  The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle and the story of the twentieth century. Renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne paints vivid and dramatic scenes from start to finish, from Malcolm's clandestine meeting with the KKK in 1961 to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in 1965, in which Payne reveals the complicity of the American government.  Payne interviewed everyone he could find who had known Malcolm X in a nearly thirty-year-long quest - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders. Conjuring a never-before-seen world of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, this magisterial work sets his life not only within the political struggles of his day but also against the larger backdrop of American history.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42444758122715,"sku":"9780241503041","price":22.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_cd081fae-454e-4ef0-8c3f-6124d7ef6f66.jpg?v=1644232502"},{"product_id":"9781529114911-the-famished-road","title":"The Famished Road","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Ben Okri\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 592\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe magical Booker Prize-winning novel that journeys between the land of the Living and the spirit world  Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel    'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use'    Azaro, is a spirit child, who in many traditions of Nigeria exists between life and death. Born into a difficult world, Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living- to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.  'In a magnificent feat of sustained imaginative writing, Okri spins a tale that is epic and intimate at the same time. The Famished Road rekindled my sense of wonder. It made me, at age 50, look at the world through the wide eyes of a child' Michael Palin  'This is a book to generate apostles. People will be moved and, with stars in their eyes, will pass on the word' Time Out   'Ben Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence' Independent on Sunday","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42444768608475,"sku":"9781529114911","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_129877a1-3342-4e2c-9c53-88dcb547e28b.jpg?v=1644232547"},{"product_id":"9780140314601-playing-beatie-bow","title":"Playing Beatie Bow","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Ruth Park\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 208\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thrilling adventure story for children and young adults by Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow follows Abigail as she is swept back to the Sydney of a hundred years ago by a scary game.   A thrilling adventure story for children and young adults by Park Ruth, Playing Beatie Bow follows Abigail as she suddenly finds herself in the Sydney of a hundred years ago as the result of a scary game.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42444787122395,"sku":"9780140314601","price":14.44,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/MByxLC75BCanatvQKvHj2p_jeeu8GsGlwLzVeoD0nKMOvg_60_60.jpg?v=1644274669"},{"product_id":"9780008485191-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-collins-modern-classics","title":"All the Light We Cannot See (Collins Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Anthony Doerr\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 544\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION  A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II  Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.  In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.  Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42957720453339,"sku":"9780008485191","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780008485191.jpg?v=1655271398"},{"product_id":"9781409180074-queenie-british-book-awards-book-of-the-year","title":"Queenie: British Book Awards Book of the Year","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Candice Carty-Williams\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 400\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER    BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION    'A deliciously funny, characterful, topical and thrilling novel for our times' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize     'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo Moyes     'A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all' Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City    Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places.    As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.    A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43466840113371,"sku":"9781409180074","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781409180074.jpg?v=1665022533"},{"product_id":"9780099289524-secondhand-disgrace-a-bbc-between-the-covers-big-jubilee-read-pick","title":"Disgrace: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition.  See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: J.M. Coetzee\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 224\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43692097994971,"sku":"9780099289524-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780099289524.jpg?v=1669000918"},{"product_id":"9781529019292-secondhand-shuggie-bain-winner-of-the-booker-prize","title":"Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition.  See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Douglas Stuart\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 448\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Booker Prize 2020  Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021 Winner of 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021  'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' - Observer   'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize    It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and as she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different, he is clearly no' right.  But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.   Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of Frank McCourt, Edward St Aubyn and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43742880760027,"sku":"9781529019292-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781529019292.jpg?v=1669802045"},{"product_id":"9781408809938-secondhand-the-finkler-question","title":"The Finkler Question","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Howard Jacobson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 384\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e______________  WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ______________  'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near invisible skill of the authentic writer' - Observer  'Wonderful ... Jacobson is seriously on form' - Evening Standard ______________  Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked - and his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes. ______________  'How is it possible to read Howard Jacobson and not lose oneself in admiration for the music of his language, the power of his characterisation and the penetration of his insight? ... The Finkler Question is further proof, if any was needed, of Jacobson's mastery of humour' - The Times  'There are few writers who exhibit the same unawed respect for language or such a relentless commitment to re-examining even the most seemingly unobjectionable of received wisdoms' - Daily Telegraph","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43763050971355,"sku":"9781408809938-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781408809938-us-300.jpg?v=1670218064"},{"product_id":"9780571338740-secondhand-milkman","title":"Milkman","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Anna Burns\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 368\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished.  Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with milkman (which she herself for the life of her cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous.  Milkman is a searingly honest novel told in prose that is as precise and unsentimental as it is devastating and brutal. A novel that is at once unlocated and profoundly tethered to place is surely a novel for our times.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43792872177883,"sku":"9780571338740-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780571338740_4764f4e7-0b37-43c4-8804-d45e24da0a72.jpg?v=1670903891"},{"product_id":"9781529414677-everything-inside","title":"Everything Inside","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Edwidge Danticat\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 320\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.    AUGUST 2020 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK  WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD  WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE  WINNER OF THE 2020 VILCEK PRIZE IN LITERATURE     Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores the forces that pull us together, or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant.    In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby's christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose. This is the indelible work of a keen observer of the human heart--a master.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806114349275,"sku":"9781529414677","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781529414677.jpg?v=1671153919"},{"product_id":"9781843547211-secondhand-the-white-tiger","title":"The White Tiger","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Aravind Adiga\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 336\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unlike almost any other Indian novel you might have read in recent years, this page-turner offers a completely bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the country as seen from the bottom of the heap; there's not a sniff of saffron or a swirl of sari anywhere. The Indian tourist board won't be pleased, but you'll read it in a trice and find yourself gripped.' Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times    Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape.   His big chance comes when a rich village landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son. Arriving in Delhi with his new master, Balram's re-education begins, as he learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. As the other servants flick through the pages of Murder Weekly, Balram begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top?   The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.   'I'm very honoured to win the Man Booker Prize for The White Tiger. I'm grateful to my publishers, Atlantic Books - and also to all the reviewers, critics, and readers, especially in Australia, who have supported my book. I hope The White Tiger delights even more readers and also gets them thinking about the larger issues it raises.' - Aravind Adiga, Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43823883190491,"sku":"9781843547211-SECONDHAND","price":5.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781843547211-us-300.jpg?v=1671616376"},{"product_id":"9781784877217-beloved","title":"Beloved","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor: Toni Morrison\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNumber of Pages: 352\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have never read anything from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, start here. Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, Beloved is central to Morrison's oeuvre and has become one of the most-taught novels in America, a true classic in every sense. Inspired by the life of Margaret Garner, it is the story of a woman named Sethe in 1870s Ohio, raising her daughter Denver in a house haunted by the memory of her first daughter, who died when Sethe tried to escape slavery. She is known only by the name on her tombstone, Beloved, but when a young woman answering to that name appears, Sethe sacrifices all she has for a chance to love the daughter she had lost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43856769810651,"sku":"9781784877217","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780099511656.jpg?v=1672969652"},{"product_id":"9780330349932-secondhand-the-english-patient","title":"The English Patient","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Michael Ondaatje\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 320\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet at the end of World War II, this novel explores the lives of four very disparate people who find themselves holed up together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. The author was awarded the 1992 Booker Prize for this book.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43884864340187,"sku":"9780330349932-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780330349932-us-300.jpg?v=1674475539"},{"product_id":"9780330427371-secondhand-the-line-of-beauty","title":"The Line of Beauty","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Alan Hollinghurst\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 320\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlan Hollinghurst's book takes up where his previous acclaimed work, \"The Swimming-Pool Library\" ends. \"The Line of Beauty\" traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens as the Thatcher boom-years unfold.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43888629154011,"sku":"9780330427371-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/md31374513559.jpg?v=1674561540"},{"product_id":"9781860498800-secondhand-the-blind-assassin","title":"The Blind Assassin","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Margaret Atwood\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 656\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War.  While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death.  Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following.       Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron.  As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe.  By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934760435931,"sku":"9781860498800-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781860498800-us-300.jpg?v=1675308721"},{"product_id":"9780140168549-red-sorghum-a-novel-of-china","title":"Red Sorghum: A Novel of China","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: 0\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 368\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature   Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s.  A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new-and unforgettable.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43940441293019,"sku":"9780140168549","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780140168549-us-300.jpg?v=1675557060"},{"product_id":"9780702232367-secondhand-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang","title":"True History of the Kelly Gang","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Peter Carey\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 416\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nTrue History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey, is a historical fiction novel about the life of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. The novel follows Kelly's life from his childhood to his eventual capture and execution, and is narrated through a series of letters written by Kelly himself. Through his narrative, Carey paints a vivid picture of the harsh realities of life in 19th century Australia and the struggles of the working class against the oppressive British colonial rule.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43957019672795,"sku":"9780702232367-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/md31374519428.jpg?v=1676350200"},{"product_id":"9780702232633-secondhand-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang","title":"True History of the Kelly Gang","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Peter Carey\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 372\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'True History of the Kelly Gang' is a breathless adventure, both a lament and a tribute, a boy's defense of his mother and a man's confiding letter to the daughter he will never meet. Carey explores the emotional life and times of our most potent legend, Ned Kelly. Winner of 2001 Booker Prize.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43957038055643,"sku":"9780702232633-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780702232633-us-300.jpg?v=1676350591"},{"product_id":"9780297859024-secondhand-the-tigers-wife","title":"The Tiger's Wife","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Tea Obreht\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 352\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising villagers, the body of her grandfather turns up in a hospital in the middle of nowhere. She and her family have no idea why.    Recalling stories he told her as a child, she becomes convinced that he went in search of the Deathless Man, a mythical figure, that her grandfather claimed to have met a number of times in his life.    In her quest to find out how her grandfather, a man of hard fact and science, could turn to this fantasy, she discovers something particular about his childhood: a tiger escaped from a zoo during World War II bombings and wandered deep into the woods, settling just outside his peasant village. It terrorized the town, the devil incarnate to everyone, except for her grandfather and 'the tiger's wife'...","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963697889499,"sku":"9780297859024-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780297859024-us-300.jpg?v=1676599675"},{"product_id":"9781526623768-welcome-to-the-new-world-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize","title":"Welcome to the New World: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Jake Halpern\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 192\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--- GUARDIAN GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR ---  --- OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH ---   THE GROUNDBREAKING GRAPHIC NOVEL   A story about ordinary people navigating a strange land, in even stranger times.   On the eve of the US elections, a Syrian family leave their world behind for a chance at the American dream. But as the first day of their new life dawns, they are greeted by the news of Donald Trump's victory. It's as if they arrived in one country, and woke up in another. What does that mean for their past, their future... their home?   Welcome to the New World began as a ground-breaking comic strip in the New York Times. Every week, the Aldabaan family's experiences would be retold as a cartoon strip - keeping step as events unfolded in real life. One Pulitzer Prize later, this stunning graphic novel fills in the gaps, gradually revealing an America which is full of contradictions: foreign yet familiar, ignorant but kind, cruel yet generous. It's also an intimate portrait of family dynamics and everyday fortitude, from the first day at a new school to getting a new job (any job!) against the clock. It seems that if you can't turn back, the only way to go is onwards.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43983938683099,"sku":"9781526623768","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781526623768.jpg?v=1677575062"},{"product_id":"9780316955171-youngblood-hawke","title":"Youngblood Hawke","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: 0\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 800\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed as a tremendous novel, full of wisdom and pain by the Los Angeles Times, Youngblood Hawke is Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's classic portrait of a rising literary star in New York and Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s.   Herman Wouk's galvanizing fictional portrait of an American novelist is itself a work of fiction that teems with energy, incident, and emotion. Tracing the journey of Arthur Youngblood Hawke from the small Kentucky mining town of his childhood to the pinnacle of literary celebrity and success in New York and Hollywood, the novel brings to life a whole galaxy of vivid characters as it offers one of the most sobering and enthralling portraits of the literary life ever written. A big, powerful, exciting novel...Wouk has a tremendous narrative gift. --San Francisco Chronicle","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43983940714715,"sku":"9780316955171","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780316955171.jpg?v=1677575129"},{"product_id":"9780140119930-secondhand-sacred-hunger","title":"Sacred Hunger","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Barry Unsworth\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 640\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE  'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins- Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for \"denying Holy Writ\" . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's iniquitous greed . . . AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43998045896923,"sku":"9780140119930-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780140119930-us-300.jpg?v=1678354825"},{"product_id":"9781761151156-cold-coast","title":"Cold Coast","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Robyn Mundy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 288\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner Tasmanian Literary Awards -  People's Choice  Shortlisted for the Tasmanian Literary Awards -  Premier's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize   Inspired by the story of Svalbard's first female trapper, Cold Coast is a gripping portrayal of survival within the stark beauty and perilous wilderness of the high Arctic   In 1932, Wanny Woldstad, a young widow, travels to Svalbard, daring to enter the Norwegian trappers' fiercely guarded male domain. She must prove to Anders Saeterdal, her trapping partner who makes no secret of his disdain, that a woman is fit for the task. Over the course of a Svalbard winter, Wanny and Saeterdal will confront polar bears, traverse glaciers, withstand blizzards and the dangers of sea ice, and hike miles to trap Arctic fox, all in the frigid darkness of the four-month polar night. For Wanny, the darkness hides her own deceptions that, if exposed, speak to the untenable sacrifice of a 1930s woman longing to fulfil a dream.     Alongside the raw, confronting nature of the trappers' work, is the story of a young blue Arctic fox, itself a hunter, who must eke out a living and navigate the trappers' world if it is to survive its first Arctic winter.  PRAISE FOR COLD COAST   '[Mundy] translates the stark beauty and acerbity of the Arctic with masterly wit and fervour. This is the best kind of novel - one that takes you away from the mundanity of your plastic chair and four concrete walls.' - Sydney Morning Herald 'Cold Coast is a stunning novel, rich in metaphor and symbolism...Mundy's writing is poetic and lyrical. It transports the reader to a perilous but unexpectedly luminous part of the world that most people will never visit.' -  The Canberra Times    'A brilliant feminist biographical natural history novel.' -  Australian Women's Weekly   'Robyn Mundy's Cold Coast is a remarkable achievement. It tells Woldstad's story in gorgeously intimate prose, with page after page of stunning nature writing.' - Books+Publishing   'Cold Coast summons the raw beauty of Svalbard with achingly evocative prose. At once visceral and lyrical, I was totally absorbed in the story of Wanny Woldstad and her yearning for wilder freedoms.' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites   'An exquisitely written, immersive novel about wildness, survival and the incomparable exhilaration of choosing a bigger life. I was captivated from start to finish.' - Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident and Love Objects   'Rarely has a book been so evocative of time and place. At once transporting and unsentimental, Cold Coast is as bracing as the arctic winds that sweep through its world. Its truths about love, endurance and courage are visceral and above all exhilarating, even as death hovers unsettlingly near.' - Lucy Treloar, author of Salt Creek and Wolfe Island   'There is a magic and mystery to the isolated reaches of our world, and Mundy has bottled up its icy wonder for us to savour this summer.' - Jackie Tang, Readings Monthly","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44026142654683,"sku":"9781761151156","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781761151156.jpg?v=1679648436"},{"product_id":"9780436203381-secondhand-how-late-it-was-how-late","title":"How Late it Was, How Late","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: James Kelman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 5\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book How Late it Was, How Late by the author James Kelman.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44114544296155,"sku":"9780436203381-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/how_late_it_was_how_late.jpg?v=1726018812"},{"product_id":"9781408891384-secondhand-the-song-of-achilles","title":"The Song of Achilles","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Madeline Miller\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 368\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD**  WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  'Captivating' DONNA TARTT 'I loved it' J K ROWLING 'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUE  Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.  'A book I could not put down' ANN PATCHETT 'An exciting, sexy, violent Superman version of The Iliad' GUARDIAN 'Sexy, dangerous, mystical' BETTANY HUGHES","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44114545574107,"sku":"9781408891384-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781408891384-us-300_90e24465-8193-4829-b9e1-edeb92cb51f3.jpg?v=1684670239"},{"product_id":"9780099478461-secondhand-the-road-home-from-the-sunday-times-bestselling-author","title":"The Road Home: From the Sunday Times bestselling author","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Rose Tremain\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 480\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow reissued with a stunning new jacket look, The Road Home is a wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.  'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' Observer  A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.  Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British- their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging...  'A novel of urgent humanity' Sunday Telegraph","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44153995034843,"sku":"9780099478461-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780099478461-us-300.jpg?v=1687119595"},{"product_id":"9781408871751-secondhand-lincoln-in-the-bardo-winner-of-the-man-booker-prize-2017","title":"Lincoln in the Bardo: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: 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 books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: George Saunders\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 368\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017  A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH  'A masterpiece' Zadie Smith 'Extraordinary' Daily Mail 'Breathtaking' Observer 'A tour de force' The Sunday Times  The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War  The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body.  From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.  Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44154005618907,"sku":"9781408871751-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9781408871751-us-300.jpg?v=1687120277"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/collections\/prize-winners.oembed?page=4","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}