50 Books You Can't Put Down
Her Fearful Symmetry
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The brilliant new novel from the author of the massive international bestseller, The Time Traveler's Wife now in second format.
Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers – normal, at least, for identical ‘m... Buy or find out more →
King Of The Cross
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
King of the Cross is a dazzling novel that explores the criminal world of Jacob Mendoza: legendary Godfather of Kings Cross and for more than four decades, Australia's most powerful and notorious crime figure. To record ... Buy or find out more →
Campaign Ruby
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
When she gets the email announcing her redundancy, Ruby Stanhope hopes to maintain the composure expected of your average London investment banker.
Instead, the next day’s hangover brings two unfortunate discoveries. Fir... Buy or find out more →
Halo
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Venus Cove. But everything changes when three angels, Ivy, Bethany and Gabriel are sent from heaven to protect the town against the gathering forces of darkness. They work hard ... Buy or find out more →
The Happiest Refugee: My Journey From Tragedy To Comedy
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the Indie Book of the Year Award 2011
The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians. Description
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came clo... Buy or find out more →
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
$14.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into high school where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.... Buy or find out more →
Trouble At The Zoo: Bindi Wildlife Adventures Book One
$9.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Come and join Bindi Irwin on her next wildlife adventure!
Bindi's birthday party at Australia Zoo is going to be HUGE. Karaoke, animal rides, dancing competitions, it's all happening! But when a spoilt ten-year-old boy d... Buy or find out more →
Everything Beautiful
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
I believe in Chloe and chocolate. I believe the best part is always before. I believe that most girls are shifty and most guys are dumb. I believe the more you spill, the less you are. I don't believe in life after death... Buy or find out more →
Beatle Meets Destiny
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Imagine your name is John Lennon, only everyone calls you Beatle.
And then you meet your Dream girl and her name is Destiny McCartney.
But what if you're already with the perfect girl?
A novel about change, chance and ev... Buy or find out more →
Camelot: The Dragons Book One
$14.95 – Paperback book / Random House
In the days when dragons roamed the earth turning people into toast, a mighty King ruled the world. This King lived in the great castle of Camelot in the beautiful island of Avalon. Guided by the great wizard Merlin, thi... Buy or find out more →
The Magician's Apprentice
$22.99 – Paperback book / Orbit
Prequel to The Black Magician trilogy.
In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer - much to the frustration of her mother, who would rather she found a husband. Despite... Buy or find out more →
Chasers: Alone Book One
$16.99 – Paperback book / Lothian
The gripping story of four teenagers who survive a devastating pandemic in New York City.
FOUR TEENAGERS. ONE DESTROYED CITY. THOUSANDS OF INFECTED PREDATORS…
Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when hi... Buy or find out more →
Marked: The House Of Night Book One
$16.99 – Paperback book / Atom Books
When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change. But Zoe is no or... Buy or find out more →
Dead Until Dark: The Southern Vampire Mysteries #1
$19.99 – Paperback book / Victor Gollancz
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much - not because she's not pretty - she's a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in ... Buy or find out more →
Loathing Lola
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Fifteen-year-old Courtney Marlow didn't exactly think it through. She thought the offer to have her life broadcast on national television was the perfect solution to her family's financial troubles.
She was wrong.
Macken... Buy or find out more →
Meltdown
$14.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan
A biting satire of the credit crunch from this hugely popular and bestselling author
Description of book
For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n’ Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged a... Buy or find out more →
Wonders Of A Godless World
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Suspend disbelief and immerse yourself in an electrifying, tumultuous work of the imagination - a powerful and apocalyptic tale of madness and revenge, desire and devastation, you'll be swept from the beginning of time t... Buy or find out more →
The Elegance Of The Hedgehog
$24.95 – Paperback book / Gallic Books
Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, ... Buy or find out more →
Cleo
$22.99 – Paperback book / Arena
Helen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year-old son Sam was. So when Sam heard a woman telling his mum that her cat had just had kittens, Sam pleaded to go and see them. Helen's heart melted as Sam held one of the... Buy or find out more →
Still Alice
$19.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
When Harvard professor Alice Howland gets lost in her own neighbourhood she knows something is terribly wrong. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease at 50, she struggles to find purpose in her life. As her concept of self g... Buy or find out more →
Summer At Mount Hope
$22.95 – Paperback book / Duffy & Snellgrove
Phoeba Crupp is a young woman who lives with her parents and sister on a small farm near Geelong in the 1890s. Her father is an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city in order to establish a vineyard,... Buy or find out more →
Pearl In A Cage
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman – foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant – is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek.
The town midwife, Ger... Buy or find out more →
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
$17.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Quirk
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English vil... Buy or find out more →
The Elusive Bride
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
In this exciting follow-up to The Untamed Bride and the second in the Black Cobra Quartet, battle-hardened Gareth Hamilton, a completely unstoppable ex-officer of the Crown, confronts the deadly enemy known only as the B... Buy or find out more →
Bittersweet
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Who knows you better than your sister?
Sabrina Falks is the golden girl; a beautiful, successful actress who is engaged to the too-good-to-be-true Edward. Her life is glamorous and seemingly perfect – apart from her recu... Buy or find out more →
Homecoming
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Eleanor Levine left Ireland seventy years ago with little more than a suitcase and her mother′s handwritten recipe book. Now, a lifetime later, she′s returning from New York with hard won wisdom and memories of her own. ... Buy or find out more →
Lovesong
$26.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Seeking shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm, John Patterner meets the exotic Sabiha and his carefully mapped life changes forever. Resonant of the bestselling Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller's keenly awai... Buy or find out more →
The Cattleman's Daughter
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Born on the rugged Dargo High Plains and raised by her cattleman father, Emily Flanaghan has lost her way in life.
Locked in an unhappy marriage in the suburbs, Emily misses the high country with a fierce ache. To make m... Buy or find out more →
Itsy-Bitsy Babies
$14.95 – Paperback book / Little Hare
This itsy bitsy baby sucks his thumb. That itsy bitsy baby bangs on a drum. These itsy bitsy babies splash through a puddle. Those itsy bitsy babies like to cuddle. All the itsy bitsy babies are warm and snug. All the it... Buy or find out more →
The Wonky Donkey (Book and CD)
$16.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Small children and kids at heart will be in fits of laughter at this hilarious picture book about a three-legged donkey that, by the end of the story, is a ‘spunky, hanky-panky, cranky, stinky, dinky, lanky, honky-tonky,... Buy or find out more →
The Help
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
The book that has taken the US and UK by storm.
Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...
There's Aibileen, raisi... Buy or find out more →
Riding The Black Cockatoo
$18.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
This is the compelling story of how the skull of an Aboriginal man, found on the banks of the Murray River over 40 years ago, came to be returned to his Wamba Wamba descendants. It is a story of awakening, atonement, for... Buy or find out more →
Bleed For Me
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried... Buy or find out more →
Ransom
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
David Malouf shines new light on Homer’s ILIAD, adding twists and reflections, as well as flashes of earthy humour, to surprise and enchant.
Description of book
In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by... Buy or find out more →
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories Of Personal Triumph From The Frontiers Of Brain Science (Revised Edition)
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
A New York Times bestseller; an Amazon US top ten science book of 2008 and one of Amazon Canada's top books of 2008; one of the Globe and Mail's (Canada) top books of 2008; and one of Slate top books of 2008
'This book i... Buy or find out more →
Life In His Hands: The True Story Of A Neurosurgeon And A Pianist
$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador
Charlie Teo is one of Australia's most celebrated yet controversial neurosurgeons. His pioneering "keyhole" techniques have earned him praise around the world, but in his home country he is regarded by some in the profes... Buy or find out more →
The Boat
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction 2009.
'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.'
PETER CRAVEN, Heat
'Nam Le is . . . a distributor of the peace.
'Consider the subjects of his stories: a... Buy or find out more →
Open
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in grade school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself to become a prodigy, an inner conflict t... Buy or find out more →
Jasper Jones
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year award.
Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel - thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsider... Buy or find out more →
Maralinga
$21.95 – Paperback book / Arrow
The power to love, the power to hate, the power to destroy human existence ... MARALINGA has them all!
During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infa... Buy or find out more →
Johnny Lewis: The Biography
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
He's the best loved man in Australian boxing - from training Jeff Fench and Kostya Tszyu to touring with the Kangaroos and appearing on talk back with Alan Jones, Johnny Lewis looms large in Australian sporting life. Thi... Buy or find out more →
First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers And The Backyards That Made Them
$27.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books
Australia has dominated test cricket over the last 130 years. But it′s not the formal cricket academies or high-end coaching that are responsible for the Australian cricket team′s winning ways. The backyard has been the ... Buy or find out more →
Truth
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a pani... Buy or find out more →
The World Beneath
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Winner of the People’s Choice Award for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010
• Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction • Shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award 2... Buy or find out more →
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest
$24.95 – Paperback book / Maclehose Press
Lisbeth Salander is plotting her revenge - against the men who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking... Buy or find out more →
The Gallipoli Letter
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
The vivid, charged and emotional letter that changed the course of the Gallipoli campaign.
In September 1915, Keith Murdoch, then a young war journalist, wrote an 8000-word letter to the Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher. 'T... Buy or find out more →
Ray: Stories Of My Life
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
The bestselling autobiography of one of Australia’s most loved personalities is now in paperback.
Now, in paperback, Ray Martin’s bestselling autobiography tells the story of his less than stellar introduction to the g... Buy or find out more →
Under The Dome
$24.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
There's a reason why Stephen King is one of the best selling writers in the world ever. He knows how to write stories that suck you in and are impossible to put down. The New York Times describes it as a 'relentless tida... Buy or find out more →
Australians: Origins To Eureka
$39.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
Thomas K... Buy or find out more →