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  • The Good Earth

    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    Series series The Good Earth Trilogy
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling novel about a peasant farmer and his family in early twentieth-century China.The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They have sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dusk

    by Robbie Arnott ...
    'Magnificent' Tim WintonIn the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, they reluctantly decide to join the hunt. As they journey up into this wild, haunted country, they discover there's far more to the land and people of the highlands than they ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD $12.99 AUD

  • The Christmas Castle in Scotland (Romantic Escapes, Book 9)

    by Julie Caplin ...
    Series Book 9 - Romantic Escapes
    Unwrap this gorgeous gift of a book for an escape to the snow-peaked caps of the Scottish Highlands and a romance that will melt your heart…Izzy McBride had never in a million years expected to inherit an actual castle from her great uncle Bill but here she was, in the run up to Christmas, Monarch of her own Glen – a very rundown glen in need of a lot of TLC if her dream of turning it into a ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD $2.99 AUD

  • And Then There Were None

    by Agatha Christie ...
    Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, and the best-selling murder mystery book of all time.Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by a mysterious host.They sit down for dinner and a record begins to play. The voice of their host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. By the end of the night one of them will be dead.Stranded by a ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • The Stranger

    by Albert Camus ...
    Step into the intriguing world of existentialism and moral ambiguity with Albert Camus' masterful novel, The Stranger. Set in the sun-drenched streets of French Algiers, this thought-provoking literary classic takes readers on a journey of introspection, challenging societal norms and exploring the depths of human existence. Meet Meursault, a dispassionate and detached protagonist, who finds ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

  • The Old Man and the Sea

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and the year after, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway in 1954. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, this short novel is already a modern classic. It is the superbly told, tragic story of Santiago, an ... Read more

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  • Bookishly Ever After

    by Mia Page ...
    ‘Enemies to lovers? YES PLEASE. I loved every second of this book.’ Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A modern day You’ve Got Mail.’ Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐Two rival bookstore owners. One chance for a happily ever after…Bookshop owner Lexi Austen’s problems are stacking up. Her dating life is a mess and Sam Dickens – devastatingly handsome, arrogant, and fiercely competitive rival bookshop o... ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • The Left Hand of Darkness

    A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series Book 172 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    'A rich and complex story of friendship and love' GUARDIAN 'It's a giant thought experiment that's also a cracking good read about gender' Neil Gaiman'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new'Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • For the Term of his Natural Life

    by Marcus Clarke ...
    On the evening of May 3, 1827, the garden of a large red-brick bow-windowed mansion called North End House, which, enclosed in spacious grounds, stands on the eastern height of Hampstead Heath, between Finchley Road and the Chestnut Avenue, was the scene of a domestic tragedy.Three persons were the actors in it. One was an old man, whose white hair and wrinkled face gave token that he was at least ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

    by R.F. Kuang ...
    THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER‘One for Philip Pullman fans’THE TIMES‘This one is an automatic buy’GLAMOUR‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’EVENING STANDARD‘Razor-sharp’DAILY MAIL‘An ingenious fantasy about empire’GUARDIAN</p... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Complete Riftwar Saga Trilogy: Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon

    by Raymond E. Feist ...
    This ebook contains the entire trilogy The Riftwar Saga by bestselling author Raymond E. Feist, master of magic and adventure.The ebook includes Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon.At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master Magician – and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever.Suddenly the peace of the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Shogun

    Book One of the Asian Saga - The book that inspired the multi-Emmy Award-winning TV show

    by James Clavell ...
    NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' DAILY MIRRORThis is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.Starting with his shipwreck ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Palace of Eros

    by Caro De Robertis ...
    'A brilliant and luminous writer’ MADELINE MILLER, author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES and CIRCETheirs was a love that defied the gods…GLOWING READER REVIEWS‘A beautiful story about the power of autonomy’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️‘Heart-wrenching, hard-hitting, beautifully written, sumptuous, poetic, romantic, and (because Eros is the goddess of desire) utterly scorching in places’ ⭐️⭐... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • The Wind in The Willows (Collins Classics)

    by Kenneth Grahame ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.’A timeless and celebrated children’s classic, Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows has delighted for nearly 100 years. In the idyllic English countryside, Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad encounter adventure at every turn – ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD

  • The Great Dune Trilogy

    Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune

    by Frank Herbert ...
    Three of the greatest SF novels in the world in one bumper omnibus, and the inspiration for the spectacular cinematic events Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two.'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C ClarkeHerbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex pol... ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude

    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE_______________________________'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Atlas Shrugged

    by Ayn Rand ...
    Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • A Song to Drown Rivers

    by Ann Liang ...
    A love story that transcends time and place.Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue - where the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of Fanli, the famous young military advisor, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon; one that could topple the rival neighbouring kingdom of Wu, improve the ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD $12.99 AUD

  • The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

    by Charles Darwin, John Milton, Molière, Anonymous, Plato, Adam Smith, Francis Bacon, Aesop, Oliver Goldsmith, Epictetus, Benjamin Franklin, Confucius, Virgil, Christopher Marlowe, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Carlyle, Saint Augustine, Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripides, Tacitus, Sophocles, Plutarch, Dante Alighieri, Edmund Burke, Cicero, John Dryden, Grimm Brothers, Robert Burns, William Penn, Izaak Walton, Thomas Browne, Charles Eliot, Lord Byron, . Homer, . Voltaire, John Woolman, Jane Austen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas á Kempis, Pliny the Younger, Miguel Cervantes De Saavedra, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana Jr, John Stuart Mill, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Bunyan, René Descartes, Thomas Malory, Christian, Blaise Pascal, Ivan Turgenev ...
    The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD

  • The Bridge to Holy Cross

    by Paullina Simons ...
    A powerful story of grief and hope, a passionate and epic love story from the Russian-born author of the internationally bestselling novels TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE.The world at war … two people in love.Tatiana is eighteen years old and pregnant when she miraculously escapes war-torn Leningrad to the West, believing herself to be a widow. Her husband, Major Alexander Belov, a decorated hero of ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • 1984

    by George Orwell ...
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD

  • Mystery in Manhattan

    The start of a cozy mystery series from Kelly Oliver

    by Kelly Oliver ...
    Series Book 1 - A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery
    "The perfect wartime spy; Fiona Figg is smart, sneaky, and full of surprises… A fun whodunit that will keep you turning the pages!” Cathi Stoler, author of The Murder On The Rocks Mysteries.**'A fun, mix of whodunnit and thriller set amid American high society' T. A. Williams'Fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek spy romp. Enjoy the ride' Frances Evesham**Can Fiona catch a killer and find a decent cup of ... Read more

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  • Happy Valley: Text Classics

    by Patrick White ...
    Series series Text Classics
    Patrick White's magnificent debut novel - first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic.Based on Patrick White's own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. It is a jagged and restless study of small-town and country life.White was twenty-seven ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep ... Read more

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