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Ecstasy: Three Tales Of Chemical Romance (Film Tie-In)
Irvine Welsh

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, hospital trustee, celebrity and... Buy or find out more 


Headhunters (Film Tie-In)
Jo Nesbo

$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House

Roger Brown has it all: Norway’s most successful headhunter, he is married to a beautiful gallery owner and owns a magnificent house. But he’s also a highly accomplished art thief.

At a gallery opening, his wife intr... Buy or find out more 



The Hunger Games (Film Tie-In)
Suzanne Collins

$14.99 – Paperback book /

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and ... Buy or find out more 


Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (Film Tie-In)
Paul Torday

$22.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House

Film tie-in edition to the Sunday Times bestseller.

This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article... Buy or find out more 



The Lorax
Dr Seuss

$9.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

In this fable about the dangers of destroying our forests and woodlands, the long-suffering Lorax struggles to save all the Truffula Trees from the wicked Once-ler's axe. This text is a "Yellow Back Book", which means it... Buy or find out more 


A Dangerous Method
John Kerr

$22.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that ... Buy or find out more 



The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Moggach Deborah

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and filled with visions of a life of leisure, good weather and mango juice in their gin, a group of very different people leave England to begin a new life in... Buy or find out more 


One For The Money (Film Tie-In)
Janet Evanovich

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job at New Jersey's most down-market lingerie store, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a lo... Buy or find out more 



The Invention Of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick

$29.99 – Hardcover book / Scholastic

Orphan, clock keeper and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bit... Buy or find out more 


The Descendants (Film Tie-In)
Kaui Hart Hemmings

$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House

A descendant of one of Hawaii's largest landowners, Matthew King finds his luck has changed. His two daughters - Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a teenage recovering drug addict - are out of control; his thrill... Buy or find out more 



The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Film Tie-In)
Stieg Larsson

$19.99 – Paperback book / Maclehose Press

The first volume in Stieg Larsson's phenomenal Millennium Trilogy, with combined sales of over 55 million worldwide

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by... Buy or find out more 


We Bought A Zoo (Film Tie-In)
Benjamin Mee

$19.99 – Paperback book /

In the market for a house and the adventure of a lifetime, Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo on the English countryside, complete with over 200 exotic anim... Buy or find out more 



Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film Tie-In)
John Le Carre

$19.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers. George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscap... Buy or find out more 


War Horse (Film Tie-In)
Michael Morpurgo

$16.95 – Paperback book / Egmont Books

This is a stunning wartime classic. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his bac... Buy or find out more 



The Art of the Adventures of Tintin
Weta Workshop

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins

Buy The Art of the Adventures of Tintin or The Adventures of Tintin Remastered DVD box set online or in-store at Readings during December and go in the draw to win an exhilarating trip for two through the vibrant lands... Buy or find out more 


Hugo Movie Companion
Brian Selznick

$24.99 – Hardcover book /

Features interviews of key people behind the making of the film "Hugo"; side-by-side visual comparisons of artwork from the book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" and people, props, costumes and sets from the movie; as well... Buy or find out more 



Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (Film Tie-In)
Jonathan Safran Foer

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.... Buy or find out more 


The Rum Diary (Film Tie-In)
Hunter S. Thompson

$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al’s Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy ... Buy or find out more 



Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer (Movie Tie-In)
Megan McDonald and Peter H. Reynolds

$15.95 – Paperback book / Candlewick Press

Join Judy Moody for a mega-rare, NOT-bummer summer adventure!

Roar! It’s not bad enough that Mom and Dad are heading to California, leaving Judy and Stink with Aunt Awful (er, Opal), but now Judy’s two best friends are g... Buy or find out more 


We Need To Talk About Kevin (Film Tie-In)
Lionel Shriver

$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Now a major motion picture starring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller, directed by Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar, Ratcatcher), score by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. Published in twenty-eight countries. Over a ... Buy or find out more 



Moneyball (Movie Tie-In)
Michael Lewis

$19.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton

The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought.In major league baseball the biggest wallet is supposed to win: rich teams spend four times as much on talent as poor teams. But over the p... Buy or find out more 


Drive (Film Tie-In)
James Sallis

$17.95 – Paperback book / No Exit Press

"Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of cours... Buy or find out more 



Norwegian Wood (Film Tie-In)
Haruki Murakami

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift ... Buy or find out more 


The Hunter (Film Tie-In)
Julia Leigh

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Somewhere, he thinks, cherishing his last thought before sleep, somewhere, out there, the last tiger stands with her back to the rising wind and slowly shakes herself awake.

An unnamed man arrives at a remote house on th... Buy or find out more 



Oranges And Sunshine
Margaret Humphreys

$19.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books

Now a major film, the book that exposed the scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants, previously published as Empty Cradles

Description of book

In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, inve... Buy or find out more 


The Whistleblower: Sex, Trafficking, Military Contractors And One Woman's Fight For Justice
Kathryn Bolkovac

$25.00 – Paperback book / Palgrave

When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel, and the... Buy or find out more 



Water For Elephants (Film Tie-In)
Sara Gruen

$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

Set in a travelling circus touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930s this is a story of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves and fat ladies, horses and elephants - or to be m... Buy or find out more 


Limitless (Film Tie-In)
Alan Glynn

$22.99 – Paperback book / Faber

A pharmaceutical Faust - a journey through the darker side of ambition.

Imagine a drug that made your brain function with perfect efficiency, tapping into your deepest resources of creativity, intelligence and drive. A d... Buy or find out more 



Something Borrowed (Film Tie-In)
Emily Giffin

$19.95 – Paperback book / Arrow

SEX IN THE CITY MEETS GOOD IN BED'I absolutely loved it ... a compelling, engrossing and uplifting book' MARIAN KEYES

Rachel Miller and Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood. They've shared birthdays, the ho... Buy or find out more 


Brighton Rock (Film Tie-In)
Graham Greene

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

In a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding, Independent

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Br... Buy or find out more 



Never Let Me Go (Film Tie-In)
Kazuo Ishiguro

$22.99 – Paperback book / Faber

The film tie-in edition of Ishiguro's Booker-shortlisted novel.

In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered ve... Buy or find out more 


The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary Volume 2
Jeff Kinney

$16.95 – Paperback book / Puffin

Go behind the scenes with Jeff Kinney and the making of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie!

Ever wondered how they make a movie out of a book? Author Jeff Kinney didn't know either, but discovering how Greg Heffley and every... Buy or find out more 



The King's Speech
Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

$29.95 – Paperback book / Quercus

The King's Speech book forms the basis of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham-Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century amazingly he ... Buy or find out more 


True Grit (Film Tie-In)
Charles Portis

$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

A classic American novel - now a major feature film by the Coen brothers.

There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him dow... Buy or find out more 



The Long Walk: The Story That Inspired The Major Motion Picture The Way Back
Slavomir Rawicz

$24.99 – Paperback book / Constable & Co Ltd

This is one of the world's greatest stories of adventure, survival and escape. SlavomirRawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 9th November 1939, he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation in Mo... Buy or find out more 


Barney's Version (Film Tie-In)
Mordecai Richler

$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Before his brain began to shrink, Barney Panofsky clung to two cher-ished beliefs. Life was absurd, and nobody ever truly understood any-body else. Even his friends tend to agree that Barney is 'a wife-abuser, an intelle... Buy or find out more 



Tamara Drewe
Posy Simmonds

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape

Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it... Buy or find out more 


127 Hours
Avon Ralston

$22.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster

On Sunday April 27, 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, Ralston, a seasoned climber, figured he'd hike for a few hours and then head off to work... Buy or find out more 



I Am Number Four (Film Tie-In)
Pittacus Lore

$16.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

There were NINE of us who escaped . . .

Number ONE was killed in Malaysia

Number TWO was murdered in England.

Number THREE was hunted down in Kenya.

Before they come for the others, they'll come for me . . .

I AM NUMBER ... Buy or find out more 


Desert Flower
Waris Dirie

$22.99 – Paperback book / Virago

Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born... Buy or find out more 



Gulliver's Travels (Film Tie-In)
Jonathan Swift

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

From Twentieth Century Fox comes this modern-day re-imagining of Jonathan Swift's classic satire.

Lemuel Gulliver is just an ordinary guy working in the mail room of the New York Tribune.

No one ever takes him seriously,... Buy or find out more 


Sarah's Key
Tatiana de Rosnay

$22.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

This is the shocking, profoundly moving and morally challenging story... It will haunt you, it will help to complete you... nothing short of miraculous." -Augusten Burroughs "Just when you thought you might have read abo... Buy or find out more 



Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

$22.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

Amid the harsh landscape of the Ozark Hills, sixteen-year-old Ree is taking care of her mother and two brothers. Her father has put their house up as bail and if he doesn't show up at court it'll be sold from under them.... Buy or find out more 


The American (Film Tie-In)
Martin Booth

$18.05 – Paperback book / Bantam Press

A haunting psychological suspense novel, now re-released to tie in to the major new film starring George Clooney

The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla - Mr. Butterfly. He is a discreet... Buy or find out more 



Fair Game (Movie Tie-In)
Valerie Wilson

$19.99 – Paperback book /

FROM THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE BOURNE FILMS COMES THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SEAN PENN AND NAOMI WATTS.

Based on Fair Game, Valerie Plame Wilson's historic and unvarnished account of the personal and internati... Buy or find out more 


Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (Celebratory Edition)
J.K. Rowling

$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

The seventh book in this award-winning and phenomenally bestselling series, with a foiled and starred cover.

Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits ... Buy or find out more 



The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest (Film Tie-In)
Stieg Larsson

$19.99 – 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 


Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (Film Tie-In)
C.S. Lewis

$16.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

The intrepid Edmund and Lucy return to Narnia - with their beastly cousin Eustace in tow -- on the ship The Dawn Treader, where their old friend Prince Caspian is searching for lost friends of his father's. As the childr... Buy or find out more 



Eat Pray Love (Film Tie-In)
Elizabeth Gilbert

$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

The movie tie-in edition of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir, a global bestseller, that has sold over 7 million worldwide.

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a hu... Buy or find out more 


Tomorrow When The War Began: The Tomorrow Series #1 (Film Tie-In)
John Marsden

$18.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

Somewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding.

They're shocked, they're frightened, they're alone.

Their world has changed, with the speed of a slamming door.

They've got no weapons – except courage.

They've got... Buy or find out more 



Let The Right One In (Film Tie-In)
John Ajvide Lindqvist

$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Oskar lives with his mum in a Stockholm highrise. He likes eating sweets and collecting stories of violent murder from the newspaper, and he has a slight incontinence problem.

The kids at school call him Piggy and beat h... Buy or find out more 


The Ghost Writer (Film Tie-In)
Robert Harris

$24.95 – Paperback book / Arrow

A tie-in edition of the best-selling book, to coincide with the release of the blockbuster film directed by Roman Polanski

‘The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now…’

The narr... Buy or find out more 



The Killer Inside Me (Film Tie-In)
Jim Thompson

$22.99 – Paperback book / Orion

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about w... Buy or find out more 


Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: Scott Pilgrim Volume Two
Bryan Lee O'Malley

$18.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

Does Scott and Ramona′s burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn′t Scott still supposedly dating Knives Chau? Who is Ramona′s second evil ex-boyfriend, and why is he in Toronto? Who are The Clash At Demonhead, and what... Buy or find out more 



The Tree (Film Tie-In)
Judy Pascoe

$22.95 – Paperback book / Pier 9

‘It was simple for me: the saints were in heaven, and guardian angels had extendable wings like Batman, and my dad had died and gone to live in the tree in the back yard.’ When Simone’s father dies, her mother Dawn is le... Buy or find out more 


The Girl Who Played With Fire (Film Tie-In)
Stieg Larsson

$19.99 – Paperback book / Maclehose Press

Millennium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging w... Buy or find out more 



The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year
Jay Parini

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer and James McAvoy

It's 1910.

The life of Leo Tolstoy is moving towards its close.

The assistant: 'Since my conversion to Tolstoyism, I was hungry for G... Buy or find out more 


The Blind Side
Michael Lewis

$19.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton

The young man at the centre of this "compelling book" ("The Economist") will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When Michael Lewis introduces him to the reader, he is one of t... Buy or find out more 



Beneath Hill 60
Will Davies

$34.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage

The story of the Australian miners and soldiers who tunnelled under Hill 60 near Ypres and eventually broke through to create a new frontline and enable the march to Berlin.

We all remember images from WWI of massive art... Buy or find out more 


Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

$14.95 – Paperback book / Puffin

From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes a magical re-imagining of one of the most beloved stories of all time. Mia Wasikowska stars as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she f... Buy or find out more 



Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan

$16.95 – Paperback book / Puffin

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, now a major motion picture.

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god.

I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skatebo... Buy or find out more 


Precious
Sapphire

$21.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

The harrowing but uplifting story of an abused teenager in Harlem, adapted into a film tipped for Oscar success in 2010

This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out... Buy or find out more 



A Single Man (Film Tie-In)
Christopher Isherwood

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

A Single Man is an exclusive Vintage Classic that has been made into a film starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth and directed by Tom Ford.

In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in Califo... Buy or find out more 


Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane

$24.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press

Summer, 1954. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando ... Buy or find out more 



An Education
Lynn Barber

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

'A cautionary tale, a tragedy of innocence lost' Sunday Telegraph

1960: A stranger in a sports car offered sixteen-year-old Lynn Barber a lift. It changed her life.

The stranger charmed his way not only into Lynn's life,... Buy or find out more 


Up In The Air
Walter Kirn

$22.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. He hates his job, but he loves 'Airworld', finding happiness in pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, and pur... Buy or find out more 



The Men Who Stare At Goats
Jon Ronson

$19.99 – Paperback book / Picador

Why are Iraqi prisoners of war forced to listen to Barney the Purple Dinosaur's theme tune repeatedly, at top volume? Why have a hundred de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at F... Buy or find out more 


Invictus: Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation
John Carlin

$26.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books

Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game that made a Nation by John Carlin is now a major film, starring Morgan Freeman (as Nelson Mandela) and Matt Damon.

'[A] revelatory examination of Nelson Mandela's political genius . ... Buy or find out more 



The Road
Cormac McCarthy

$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007

The searing, post-apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged,... Buy or find out more 


The Informant: A True Story
Kurt Eichenwald

$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy-which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one... Buy or find out more 



Post-Grad: A Pre-Life Crisis
Emily Cassel

$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

What happens when your life doesn't go according to plan?

The novelisation of a feature film (in the vein of Juno and Little Miss Sunshine) being released in January 2010 about a recent college grad (Alexis Bledel, star ... Buy or find out more 


Avatar: The Field Guide To Pandora
Dirk Mathison and Maria Wilhelm

$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Marking James Cameron′s first film since 1997′s Titanic, Avatar is set to be the most exciting film of 2009 but also a major milestone in movie history.

Using state of the art technology, Cameron and producer John La... Buy or find out more 



How To Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell

$16.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

Read the original Hiccup adventures before seeing the film!

How to Train Your Dragon is soon to be a DreamWorks film starring Gerard Butler, America Ferrera and Jonah Hill, out 25th March 2010.

Chronicles the adventures ... Buy or find out more 


The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

$39.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Four novels and fifty-six short stories The complete adventures of the original and best detective – Mr Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most fam... Buy or find out more 



The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

$22.99 – Paperback book / Picador

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him ... Buy or find out more 


Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Judith Barrett

$9.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster

Imagine if food fell from the sky like rain… wouldn't it be great? Or would it?

This is what happened in the tiny town of Chewandswallow. In many ways it was much the same as any other small town, except for the weathe... Buy or find out more 



Where The Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak

$14.95 – Paperback book / Red Fox Books

Originally published in 1963, it has become a much-loved favourite children's best-seller, and an acknowledged classic of 20th century children's picture books.

Maurice Sendak said: "Max, the hero of my book, discharges ... Buy or find out more 


The Wild Things
Dave Eggers

$35.00 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton

Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged. His home life is pro... Buy or find out more 



Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Keats
John Keats

$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works a... Buy or find out more 


Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking

From the bestselling autobiography by Li Cunxin

A film directed by Bruce Beresford

In cinemas October 1

Before you fly, you have to be free.

This is my story. Here is my recollection of those years growing up in Mao's Ch... Buy or find out more 



Last Ride
Denise Young

$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial

Ten-year-old Chook knows something is wrong when his father, Kev, bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, leaving their friend Max white-faced, silent and covered in blood.

As the two head for Broken Hill, i... Buy or find out more 


Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle For Peace With China
Rebiya Kadeer

$47.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton

A remarkable autobiographical journey from humble beginnings to a position as a powerful world figure fighting for her nation’s self-determination. Along the ancient Silk Road where Europe, Asia, and Russia converge stan... Buy or find out more 



Coraline
Neil Gaiman

$15.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Coraline has moved to a new house with her parents and she is fascinated by the fact that their 'house' is in fact only half a house! Divided into flats years before, there is a brick wall behind a door where once there ... Buy or find out more 


Cheri
Colette

$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage

Cheri, first published in 1920, is considered Colette's finest novel. Exquisitely handsome, spoilt and sardonic, Cheri is the only son of a wealthy courtesan, a contemporary of Lea, the magnificent and talented woman who... Buy or find out more 



Wake In Fright
Kenneth Cook

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

May you dream of the devil and wake in fright. An old curse

John Grant knows he’s in hell. What he doesn’t know is how to escape.

‘In the town of Bundanyabba, a young schoolmaster discovers gambling, ruins himself fi... Buy or find out more 


Balibo
Jill Jolliffe

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications

'Jolliffe has a long association with East Timor and the independence movement. She was in East Timor when the Balibo incident occured, and met the Balibo Five. Their deaths deeply affected her. Over the years, she has m... Buy or find out more 



 

Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee

$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Now a major motion picture starring John Malkovich

A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is... Buy or find out more 


The Dying Animal (aka Elegy)
Philip Roth

$22.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealth... Buy or find out more 



Let The Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist

$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Oskar lives with his mum in a high rise building in the western suburbs of Stockholm. It's the early eighties and he likes listening to Kiss on his walkman, solving puzzles and pasting grisly murder stories from the news... Buy or find out more 


The Secret Life Of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd

$22.99 – Paperback book / Headline

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was 4. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for f... Buy or find out more 



Watchmen
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

$27.95 – Paperback book / Dc Comics

"Who watches the Watchmen?" Most superhero comics take place in a world almost the same as our own. But surely, people running around in tights, people with god-like powers would make an impact. In Watchmen, they do. Ame... Buy or find out more 


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Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates

$24.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Revolutionary Road is an American classic and has been made into a film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Fr... Buy or find out more 



Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia
Roberto Saviano

$24.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as the System, the Camorra, ... Buy or find out more 


The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Stefan Aust

$45.00 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape

Rooted in the student movement of the 1960s, the story of the Baader-Meinhof group - or the Red Army Faction (RAF), as they called themselves - began in May 1970 with the freeing of Andreas Baader, imprisoned for setting... Buy or find out more 



The Secret Life Of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd

$22.99 – Paperback book / Hachette

The new edition published to tie in with the major film, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES starring Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson. Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. ... Buy or find out more 


What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales From The Front Line
Art Linson

$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Forget everything you've heard about Hollywood. What Just Happened: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line is the real deal. In Art Linson's true and uproarious tale of what it is to make movies, we get to explore, a... Buy or find out more 



The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne

$19.95 – Paperback book / Red Fox Books

Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us . . .

Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his count... Buy or find out more 


The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella

$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan

Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She's a journalist. She spends her working life telling others how to manage their money. She spends her leisure time . shopping. Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she sh... Buy or find out more 



 

The Reader
Bernhard Schlink

$22.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Phoenix House

For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair, which leave... Buy or find out more 


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