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The Great Gatsby  

The Great Gatsby
Scott F. Fitzgerald

$9.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

The lavish and glorious Baz Luhrmann film tie-in edition of The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and extravagent lifestyle of his... Buy or find out more


Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies
Isaac Marion

$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage

A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love--with a human--in this astonishingly original debut novel. Buy or find out more



The Silver Linings Playbook

The Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick

$19.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

If only life could be as simple as the movies ... Buy or find out more


Savages

Savages
Don Winslow

$19.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone

Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. In the past when their turf was challenged,... Buy or find out more



Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Matt Baglio, Antonio Mendez

$19.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Militant students stormed the American embassy and held sixty Americans captive for a gruelling 444 days. But the CIA has never revealed the twist to the Iran Hostage Crisis: six Americans escaped. The escape plot was run by the... Buy or find out more


Les Miserables

Les Miserables
Norman Denny, Victor Hugo

$19.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Hugos epic follows Jean Valjean, an honest peasant turned hardened criminal through harsh circumstances, who reforms but is pursued relentlessly by a police inspector. Famous chapters include Valjeans flight through the Paris... Buy or find out more



Life of Pi

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

$19.95 – Paperback / Cengage Learning, Inc

The beloved and bestselling novel and winner of the Booker Prize, Life of Pi, now in a trade paperback edition with cover art from the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, set for release in December 2012 Buy or find out more


Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

$19.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

The tragic story of a married woman's ill-fated affair and its catastrophic consequences, this panoramic novel uses the emotional journey of Anna to map out the full range of human experience. Buy or find out more



Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell

$19.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us. Buy or find out more


The Hobbit

The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien

$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even... Buy or find out more



The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky

$19.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

Charlie is a shy and introspective boy, a wallflower always standing on the edge of the action. He encounters many of the struggles familiar to everybody from their school days, but he must also deal with his best friend's suicide... Buy or find out more


Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

$21.95 – Paperback / Scribner Book Company

A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo's typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future. Buy or find out more



On the Road

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a... Buy or find out more


The Dark Knight Rises Poster Book

The Dark Knight Rises Poster Book
DC Batman DC Batman

$8.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books

A full colour poster book with action packed posters from the blockbuster movie The Dark Knight Rises. Buy or find out more



Bad Debts  

Bad Debts
Peter Temple

$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his... Buy or find out more


Black Tide  

Black Tide
Peter Temple

$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Black Tide has been made into a tele-movie starring Guy Pearce as Jack Irish and will be screened on the ABC in August 2012. Jack Irish has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people... Buy or find out more



My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn
Colin Clark

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

Now a major film, starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh and Dominic Cooper. This edition combines Colin Clark's acclaimed The Prince, the Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn. Buy or find out more


Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

$19.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn’t know what he wanted. Then... Buy or find out more



Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided. Ethan never even saw it coming. Buy or find out more


Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance
Irvine Welsh

$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage

Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die or will it ignite and blaze like a... Buy or find out more



Headhunters

Headhunters
Jo Nesbo, Don Bartlett

$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage

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... Buy or find out more


The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

$14.99 – Paperback / Scholastic

Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When... Buy or find out more



Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Paul Torday

$22.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co

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 / HarperCollins Publishers

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 is... Buy or find out more



A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein

A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein
John Kerr

$22.99 – Paperback / Atlantic Books

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 was as... Buy or find out more


The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Deborah Moggach

$19.95 – Paperback / 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 India.... Buy or find out more



One for the Money

One for the Money
Janet Evanovich

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Out of work, Stephanie blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. However, the chemistry between Stephanie and her first assignment--Joe Morelli, an old flame from her past--threatens to... Buy or find out more


The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick

$29.99 – Hardback / Scholastic US

Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, twelve-year-old 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 girl and her... Buy or find out more



The Descendants

The Descendants
Kaui Hart Hemmings

$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage

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-seeking,... Buy or find out more


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson

$20.00 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc

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: the Amazing True Story of a Broken-down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever

We Bought a Zoo: the Amazing True Story of a Broken-down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever
Benjamin Mee

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

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 animals.... Buy or find out more


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carre

$19.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Now a major film starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth. Buy or find out more



The Art of the Adventures of Tintin

The Art of the Adventures of Tintin
Weta Workshop

$45.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)

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The Hugo Movie Companion

The Hugo Movie Companion
Brian Selznick

$25.00 – Hardback / Scholastic US

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 as... Buy or find out more



The Rum Diary

The Rum Diary
Hunter S. Thompson

$22.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The sultry classic of a journalist's sordid life in Puerto Rico Buy or find out more


We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's character is self-evident. But generalizations about genes are likely to provide cold comfort if it's your own child who just opened fire on his feellow... Buy or find out more



Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis

$19.95 – Paperback / WW Norton & Co

The New York Times bestselling book behind the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Buy or find out more


Drive

Drive
James Sallis

$17.95 – Paperback / Oldcastle Books Ltd

"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 course,... Buy or find out more



Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami

$19.95 – Paperback / 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 in a world... Buy or find out more


The Hunter

The Hunter
Julia Leigh

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

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... Buy or find out more



Oranges and Sunshine: Empty Cradles

Oranges and Sunshine: Empty Cradles
Margaret Humphreys

$19.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd

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... Buy or find out more


The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice

The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
Kathryn Bolkovac, Cari Lynn

$25.00 – Paperback / Palgrave Macmillan

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 chance... Buy or find out more



Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen

$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression. A veterinary... Buy or find out more


Limitless

Limitless
Alan Glynn

$20.00 – Paperback / Faber and Faber

Anything that promises to make us better, richer, cleverer is always seductive and powerful. This novel tells what happens when an agent, produced in the laboratory of a pharmaceutical corporation, is accidentally let loose in... Buy or find out more



Something Borrowed

Something Borrowed
Emily Giffin

$19.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone

Soon to be a major motion picture, Something Borrowed, based on Giffin's #1 New York Times -bestselling debut novel, stars Kate Hudson ( Almost Famous ), Gennifer Goodwin ( Big Love ), and John Krasinski ( The Office ) and is... Buy or find out more


Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock
Graham Greene, J. M. Coetzee

$12.95 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more



The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary
Jeff Kinney

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

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... Buy or find out more


The King's Speech

The King's Speech
Mark Logue, Peter J. Conradi

$29.95 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc

How an unknown Australian speech therapist saved the British royal family by helping the Duke of York overcome a serious speech impediment. Buy or find out more



True Grit

True Grit
Charles Portis

$23.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The new Coen brothers' film, starring Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges, in cinemas from February 2011 Buy or find out more


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

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

$20.00 – Paperback / Constable and Robinson

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 Moscow's... Buy or find out more



Barney's Version: A Novel

Barney's Version: A Novel
Mordecai Richler

$19.95 – Paperback / 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 intellectual... Buy or find out more


Tamara Drewe

Tamara Drewe
Posy Simmonds

$34.95 – Paperback / Vintage

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: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

$22.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story - his terrible accident, self-amputation, rescue and recovery. Buy or find out more


I am Number Four

I am Number Four
Pittacus Lore

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

We are here to keep our race alive, which was almost entirely obliterated. We're just trying to survive. Six are left. But we are hunted, and the hunters won't stop until they've killed us all. They caught Number One in Malaysia.... Buy or find out more



Desert Flower

Desert Flower
Waris Dirie

$22.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

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 into a... Buy or find out more


Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift

$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage

In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and... Buy or find out more



Sarah's Key

Sarah's Key
Tatiana de Rosnay

$22.99 – Paperback / John Murray General Publishing Division

'I'll come back for you later. I promise.' Buy or find out more


Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

$22.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

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. To... Buy or find out more



The American

The American
Martin Booth

$19.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd

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


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling

$22.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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



Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest The Millennium Trilogy Bookthree Film Tie In
Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland

$19.99 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc

Film tie-in edition to final installment of phenomenal Millennium Trilogy, now on bestseller lists worldwide and box-office hits throughout Europe. Buy or find out more


Eat, Pray, Love

Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert

$25.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Elizabeth Gilbert is in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realizes it... Buy or find out more



Tomorrow, When the War Began

Tomorrow, When the War Began
John Marsden

$18.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia

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... Buy or find out more


The Ghost

The Ghost
Robert Harris

$24.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone

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... Buy or find out more



Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Bryan Lee O'Malley

$19.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

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 kind... Buy or find out more


The Tree

The Tree
Judy Pascoe

$22.95 – Paperback / Murdoch Books

‘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 left to... Buy or find out more



Girl Who Played With Fire The Millennium Trilogy Book Two Film Tie In
Stieg Larsson

$19.99 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc

When a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Mikael Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful men behind this lucrative industry. When the journalist and his girlfriend are found... Buy or find out more


The Last Station
Jay Parini

$23.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

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... Buy or find out more



The Blind Side

The Blind Side
Michael Lewis

$19.95 – Paperback / WW Norton & Co

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 thirteen... Buy or find out more


Alice in Wonderland (Book of the Film)

Alice in Wonderland (Book of the Film)

$14.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

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 first... Buy or find out more



Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

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... Buy or find out more


Precious: Based on the Novel  Push

Precious: Based on the Novel Push
Sapphire

$14.95 – Paperback / 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

A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood

$12.95 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more


Shutter Island

Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane

$19.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd

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 as a... Buy or find out more



The Men Who Stare at Goats

The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson

$20.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

In 1979, a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all known military practices and the laws of physics, they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and kill goats just... Buy or find out more


Invictus Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation Movie Tie In

Invictus Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation Movie Tie In
John Carlin

$22.99 – Paperback / 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

$20.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

Tells the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. Buy or find out more


Post Grad: A Pre-Life Crisis

Post Grad: A Pre-Life Crisis
Emily Cassel

$17.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia

Ryden Malby had a plan. Step 1: do well in high school, achieving Step 2: a college scholarship. Step 3: limit her beer intake in order to keep said scholarship. Now that she's graduated, it's time for Step 4: moving to LA to land... Buy or find out more



The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

$39.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Allows readers to experience the entire case-history of Holmes and Dr Watson from start to finish - the stories that have spawned such infamous characters as the devilish Moriarty, the devious Irene Adler and, of course, the... Buy or find out more


The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

$18.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

Watching from heaven, Susie Salmon sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up,... Buy or find out more



Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs  

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Barrett

$9.95 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse. Buy or find out more


Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak

$14.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

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



Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters

Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters
John Keats, Jane Campion

$12.95 – Paperback / 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 and a... Buy or find out more


Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin

$32.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

The true story of how one moment in time changed the course of a small Chinese boy's life in ways beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to... Buy or find out more



The Last Ride

The Last Ride
Denise Young

$25.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

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. The fast-paced and moving story of a man who... Buy or find out more


Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China

Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China
Rebiya Kadeer, Alexandra Cavelius

$34.95 – Hardback / Kales Press

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 stands the... Buy or find out more



Coraline

Coraline
Neil Gaiman

$15.95 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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 was a... Buy or find out more


Cheri

Cheri
Colette

$12.95 – 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 for... Buy or find out more



Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia

Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia
Roberto Saviano

$24.99 – Paperback / 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


Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates

$12.95 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more



Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist

$24.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

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 newspaper... Buy or find out more


Confessions of a Shopaholic

Confessions of a Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella

$19.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd

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. She knows she should stop, but she can't. She tries Cutting Back, she tries... Buy or find out more



The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne

$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

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... Buy or find out more


What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line

What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line
Art Linson

$24.95 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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,... Buy or find out more



The Dying Animal

The Dying Animal
Philip Roth

$22.95 – Paperback / 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 wealthy Cuban... Buy or find out more


Disgrace

Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

$19.95 – Paperback / 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



Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright
Kenneth Cook, Peter Temple, David Stratton

$23.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

A young teacher, John Grant, arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight. He decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub. In the company of shadowy strangers, one night stretches to five, in which he discovers... Buy or find out more


Balibo Film Tie In

Balibo Film Tie In
Jill Jolliffe

$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications

An account of the deaths of five television reporters who were killed by the Indonesian military as they filmed the advance of Indonesian troops into East Timor in 1975. Jolliffe argues that the Australian government was aware of... Buy or find out more



The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd

$22.99 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group

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... Buy or find out more


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