The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in conversation with Elena Ferrante, Colombe Schneck's three semi-autobiographical takes on a woman’s life form an el ...Show more
Paris or Die: A Memoir by Jayne Tuttle
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle's memoir lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a headlong plunge into not just life in Paris, but life itself. Aspiring actor Jayne lives in Melbourne, where she dreams of a creative life ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Great Ideas) by Virginia Woolf
$16.99 AUD
Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: good
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You by Phil Stutz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Health and Lifestyle
Is there another way? Can you live life with its conflicts, uncertainties and disappointments and still feel good about yourself? How can you even begin to think clearly about life's most universal dilemmas?Acclaimed psychotherapist Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all ...Show more
Fox 8 by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea CardinalFox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children's bedtime ...Show more
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
$2.50 AUD
Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Modern 23 | Reading Level: near fine
Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry. I am Black and lesbian, and what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, these soarin ...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
Our World: A First Book of Geography by Sue Lowell Gallion
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science and Technology
A read-aloud introduction to geography for young children that, when opened and folded back, creates a freestanding globe Children are invited to identify and experience the Earth's amazing geography through rhyming verse and lush illustrations: from rivers, lakes, and oceans deep, to valleys, hills, a ...Show more
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
$40.00 AUD
Category: Humour, Novelty and Gifts | Reading Level: very good
The Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller. A book of hope for uncertain times. 'Feeling a little blue? Meet the new Winnie the Pooh.' - The Daily Mail .... 'A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart' - Richard Curtis. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikel ...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