The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.' A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance set in the 'roaring' 1890s, Tipping the Velvet follows the gl ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...' Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy an ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago V S.
Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - ...Show more
Meridon (#3) by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Wideacre 3
In her nighttime dreams she was the favoured child, heir to land, beloved of her family, sleeping soft between linen sheets. But during the day she was bruised, barefoot and hungry.Meridon, the desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelin ...Show more
Wilt in Nowhere (#4 Wilt Series) by Tom Sharpe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Wilt Ser.
Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America. ...Show more
Denizen: Winner of the Penguin Literary Prize by James McKenzie Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Winner of the Penguin Literary Prize
A gothic thriller exploring rural Australia’s simultaneous celebration of harsh country and stoic people – a tension that forces its inhabitants to dangerous breaking points. On a remote property in western NSW, nine-year-old Parker fears that something is wrong with his brain. His desperate attempts to ...Show more
The Wolf Hall Trilogy [Gift Set Edition] by Hilary Mantel
$139.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy – Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light – traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power in Henry VIII's Tudor England. It offers a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest betwee ...Show more
The Mirror And The Light by Hilary Mantel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Wolf Hall Ser.
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 ferociou ...Show more
The Burnt Country by Joy Rhoades
$26.39 AUD
$32.99 (20% off)
Category: Literature | Series: woolgrowers companion
Pre-read / Used. Good condition The stunning new novel from the author of The Woolgrower's Companion, whom the Australian Women's Weekly described as 'a wonderful new voice in literary rural fiction'. A scandalous secret. A deadly fire. An agonizing choice. Australia 1948. As a young woman running A ...Show more