H. G. Wells: The Time Machine;The Island of Dr Moreau; The Invisible Man; The First Men in the Moon; The Food of the Gods; In the Days of the Comet; The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Facto ...Show more
Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: General Adult
Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, ...Show more
The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
"What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here."In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has sprung up in a matter of months-a town of trailers and segregated houses, twent ...Show more
The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
A young woman's romantic fantasies collide with the realities of adult life in a new novel from the bestselling author of "Prep". In the summer of 1991, Hannah Gavener is fourteen. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. ...Show more
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Porterhouse Blue Ser.
Porterhouse is a backwoods institution which is supported by fee-paying students who buy their degrees. Sir Godber Evans, the new Master, is determined to make radical changes, provoking the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter.
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Then Jerome, Howard's oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps. Increasingly, the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely regis ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daugh ...Show more
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more