The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
A Lion in Paris by Beatrice Alemagna
$29.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A Lion in Paris is widely regarded as the most accomplished book by multi-award-winning children's author/illustrator Beatrice Alemagna. It tells the story of a lion who, bored by his rural life in the savanna, seeks excitement and opportunity in the City of Light. Upon arriving in Paris, the lion is di ...Show more
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: #1 | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The N ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Death in the Family (#1 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: good
"'It's unbelievable... It's completely blown my mind' Zadie Smith /b>arl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpred ...Show more
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
$22.99 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'It is a fine novel ...Show more