His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Man Booker Prize FinalistA New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday TimesA brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question th ...Show more
Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan
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Category: General Fiction
Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015 Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lyc ens 2015 Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of fem ...Show more
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curi ...Show more
Modern Times by Cathy Sweeney
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
There once was ... a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox. a man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter. a couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to be reminded of what love is. a world where you ...Show more
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster. Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels totall ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Category: General Fiction
In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest wh ...Show more
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, ...Show more
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
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Category: General Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and 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 ...Show more
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the publication of Clarice Lispector's collected stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose ...Show more
Show Your Colours by Smriti Halls
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Category: General Fiction
Enjoy all the animals' colours - but watch out for spider Jack leaping out with his black legs! Show us your tail, Foxy Fred! Here it is, look it's RED! From duck's brown feathers to donkey's white teeth, from macaw's purple feathers to fish's yellow fins, each animal has a special colour to show off. B ...Show more
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
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Category: General Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream? Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the adv ...Show more