The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In "The Summer Book" Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a t ...Show more
Surf Like a Girl by Carolina Amell
$85.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Whether they're threading a barrel or shredding a swell, these amazing women are making enormous waves in the world of surfing. If you thought surfing was a male-dominated sport, think again. The thirty women surfers profiled in this thrilling collection can rip a wave with the best of them. Hailing f ...Show more
Evonne Goolagong (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Evonne Goolagong, the inspiring indigenous Australian tennis player. Evonne grew up on a hot, dusty farm in Australia. She was the third of eight children, and descendant of the Wirundjuri people, who have ...Show more
A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories by Angela McAllister
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: World Full Of... Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Step on to a stage full of stories with this beautiful anthology of 12 stories from Shakespeare. Featuring much-loved classics such as The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello, each story is rewritten in a comprehensive way that is accessible for children and stunnin ...Show more
You'll be Sorry When I'm Dead by Marieke Hardy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From stalking and eventually meeting her Young Talent Time idol when she was twelve, to dalliances with streetwalkers, to a mildly perverse obsession with Bob Ellis, there is nothing Marieke Hardy won't write about. Voyeuristic, painful, hilarious and heartfelt, You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead reveals the ...Show more
A Working Life by Eileen Myles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From 'the closest thing we have to a celebrity poet' (Paris Review) comes a stunning new collection of euphoric, anxious and indelible poems, perfectly in tune with our strange present. The first new poetry collection since Evolution from the peerless writer, activist and poet Eileen Myles, a "Working L ...Show more
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street "Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition. ...Show more
David Bowie (Little People, Big Dreams) by Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Aspirational | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of David Bowie, the starman who dazzled audiences with his music. As a child, young David had a head full of songs and ideas. He was inspired by the pop and mod scenes in Britain to pick up the saxophone. After earning h ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$14.99 AUD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
$12.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Popular Penguin | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Süskind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste to master the art of perfume making, but one scent evades him- that of a virgin, whom he mu ...Show more
To Write As If Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
$29.95 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language | Series: Rereadings COL Ser.
To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diag ...Show more
Iggy Peck, Architect (HB) by Andrea Beaty
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: The Questioneers
Iggy's one passion is building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, but are sometimes surprised by his materials. Who could forget the tower he built out of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge.