Is That You, Ruthie?: First Nations Classics by Jackie Huggins, Ruth Hegarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
'Is that you ...?' Matron's voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause sixty little girls would stop in their tracks, waiting to hear who was in trouble. All too often the name called out would be that of the high-spirited dormitory girl Ruthie.In the Depression years Queensland's notoriou ...Show more
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. Combining pages of her diary, kept thro ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy. ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor ...Show more
Dirrayawadha (Rise Up) by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes another groundbreaking historical novel about resistance, resilience and love during the frontier wars. Miinaa was a young girl when the white ghosts first arrived. She remembers the day they raised a piece of cloth and r ...Show more
Jane AustenInside Her Novels by Matthew Coniam
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Pitkin Guide
This beautifully illustrated guide to Jane Austen's novels, released to commemorate the 200th anniversary of her death, is an essential for any Jane Austen fan or literary lover. Revealing key aspects of Jane s own background and life, this fascinating guide explores the relationships between the key th ...Show more
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie She will breathe a new empire into life - but all worlds can escape their ...Show more
Bitin' Back: First Nations Classics by Melissa Lucashenko, Vivienne Cleven
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny but ...Show more
Plains of Promise: First Nations Classics by Alexis Wright
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Category: Literature | Series: First Nations Classics
In this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page.In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white cultures collide in a t ...Show more
Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter by Carol Atherton
$42.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An English teacher's love letter to reading and teaching- an eye-opening journey through the books we read at school, the impact they made on us then and what we can take from them now. How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What ca ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her mome ...Show more
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more