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The Pact
Jodi Picoult

$17.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

Emily Gold and Chris Harte are soul mates. They have lived next door since they were born, sharing everything from chicken pox to Chinese food, and in high school their friendship blossoms into something more. Then a mid... Buy or find out more 


Spy Who Loved Me
Ian Fleming

$16.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is ... Buy or find out more 



Submarine
Joe Dunthorne

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Meet Oliver Tate, Fifteen years old.  Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts.  Like boxing.  Dad is in the blue corner') and that his mother is having an affair with her capoeir... Buy or find out more 


The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen

$36.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill

A captivating, loveable novel of stunning originality and poignancy about a 12-year-old genius mapmaker.

T.S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his... Buy or find out more 



The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby brilliantly captures the disillusion of a society obsessed with wealth and status. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby appears to have it all, yet he yearns for the one ... Buy or find out more 


Of Mice And Men
John Steinbeck

$18.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream – a dream that one day they will have some land of their own.

Eventually they find work on... Buy or find out more 



Tully
Paullina Simons

$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial

Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer a... Buy or find out more 


Wizard Squared Rogue Agent Book Three
Mills K E

$32.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

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The Magicians
Lev Grossman

$0.00 – Trade paperback / Heinemann

In a secret world of forbidden knowledge, power comes at a terrible price...

Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he find... Buy or find out more 


Life Of Pi
Yann Martel

$24.95 – Paperback book / Canongate

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize.

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken ... Buy or find out more 



Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
Mark Haddon

$24.95 – Paperback book / Red Fox Books

Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers... Buy or find out more 


Fortress Of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem

$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber

From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America. This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and... Buy or find out more 



Special Topics In Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

She found her teacher dead – Hanging by a piece of electrical cord.

The North Carolina police think it was suicide. Her former friends – the Bluebloods – blame her for being there. And her father tells her to leave it ... Buy or find out more 


Hollywood Ending
Kathy Charles

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Set in a glamorous and seedy Los Angeles, Hollywood Ending is a story that will make your heart skip a beat.

Pink-haired Hilda and endearing punk Benji are two seventeen year olds with an obsessive hobby — they haunt the... Buy or find out more 



Pride And Prejudice
Jane Austen

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

When Elizabeth first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lovely mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has i... Buy or find out more 


The Rehearsal
Eleanor Catton

$29.99 – Paperback book / Granta

A dazzlingly assured and bold novel revolving around a school sex scandal ...

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity s... Buy or find out more 



Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke

$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me...



The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical mag... Buy or find out more 


Possession
A.S. Byatt

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Winner of the Man Booker Prize.

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives o... Buy or find out more 



The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obl... Buy or find out more 


The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury

$10.95 – Paperback book / Spectra Books

Eighteen short stories of this and other worlds, as revealed in a series of pictures on the body of an Illustrated Man. Buy or find out more 



White Teeth
Zadie Smith

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing – among many other things – with friendship, love, war, thr... Buy or find out more 


The Secret History
Donna Tartt

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Donna Tartt's The Secret History is the original American campus novel. When Richard Papen joins an elite group of clever misfits at his New England college, it seems he can finally become the person he wants to be. But ... Buy or find out more 



Kafka On The Shore
Haruki Murakami

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

KAFKA ON THE SHORE follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recover... Buy or find out more 


About A Boy
Nick Hornby

$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Will is thirty-six acts like a teenager. He reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women – at single parents' groups, full of a... Buy or find out more 



Picture Of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret w... Buy or find out more 


Day Of The Triffids
John Wyndham

$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. The London he walks is crammed with groups of men and women needing help, some ready to prey... Buy or find out more 



Stardust
Neil Gaiman

$22.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Fore... Buy or find out more 


Butterfly
Sonya Hartnett

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton

Here is Plum Coyle, on the threshold of adolescence, striving to be new. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching: her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, at ease. The strength... Buy or find out more 



The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger

$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. T... Buy or find out more 


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