The Mum (Ladybird How It Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Humour Books | Series: Ladybird How It Works
The PERFECT GIFT for Mum would be to let her take the day off while you do everything for her. Why not get her this book instead? ---------------- This is mum. A mum has two very important jobs to do. One is to look after her children. The other is to do everything else as well. ---------------- Now Lyn ...Show more
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by BADER DAVID
$14.99 AUD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of (respectively) three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to 100 Great Books. From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally withi ...Show more
The Deed by Susannah Begbie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Now that's the way to bury your old man ... he sank into his Jason recliner, wincing. A burial: a body wrapped in handwoven cloth, women dancing and wailing. Too much, in Tom's opinion, but at least they were mourning. To hell with that, at least they showed up.' Tom Edwards is dying, and cranky. He's ...Show more
The Wife (Ladybird How It Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Humour Books | Series: Ladybird How It Works
The PERFECT GIFT for your long-suffering wife or prospective bride. Or, for any fool of a husband or seriously deluded groom-to-be who hasn't yet understood what he's signed up for. -------------------- Tina is getting married. It is the best day of her life. Next year, she will claim that becoming a mo ...Show more
All the Beautiful Things You Love by Jonathan Seidler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Elly and Enzo love each other. Elly and Enzo are getting divorced. Now, everything must go. When Enzo suddenly walks out on Elly after ten years together, she finds herself marooned in an expensive East London flat, surrounded by all their belongings. She is shell-shocked. Inconsolable. She can't bear ...Show more
Appreciation by Liam Pieper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A wild romp through Australian celebrity culture that's as bold and scathing as it is hilarious. Everything in this world has a price. A great work of art is no exception. And what fortune was ever built without a little subterfuge? Oli Darling is a queer artist from the country - it says so right at ...Show more
Bright Objects by Ruby Todd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
January 1997: In the small town of Jericho, New South Wales, Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice. Since the night of the hit-and-run, her world has been shrouded in hazy darkness-until she meets Theo St John, the discoverer of a rare comet soon to b ...Show more
Darkness Runs Deep by Claire McNeel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In the darkest hour, a blood-soaked teenager flees the rural Gerandaroo football oval. Eight months later, Bess, a young teacher, returns home to Gerandaroo. A childhood game of dare with her former best friend forces Bess to form a women's footy team to play against Denby, a rival town. Bess reluctant ...Show more
Downstream by Annika Johansson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
What happens when your great Australian dream gets washed away? And then tries to drag your marriage down with it? Lismore resident Rob - a happily married empty-nester, enjoying his late middle age - has always defined himself by the quality of the roof over his head and the state of his family life. ...Show more
Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'THE ACHING, SWELLING HUMANITY OF THIS BOOK SWALLOWED ME WHOLE' SABA SAMS London, 2019. It’s the hottest June on record and the weekend is about to begin… Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with a future in the home town she once fought to escape, she’s beginning to wonder if having a baby will be ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more
The Dad (Ladybird How It Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Humour Books | Series: Ladybirds for Grown-Ups
The PERFECT GIFT for that superhero, saint, figure of worship or, if none of those apply, your plain dear old dad. 'Shawn has set up his own firework display in the garden. "Those big displays are rubbish," he tells his son. "You can't see a thing." When Shawn's son has seen the firework, they will go b ...Show more