A Fever of the Blood by Oscar De Muriel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: A Case for Frey & Mcgray
A spellbinding concoction of crime, history and horror - perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Jonathan Creek. New Year's Day, 1889. In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray and Londoner-in-exile Insp ...Show more
The White Earth: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2005 by Andrew McGahan
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
In late 1992, 8 year-old William looked out from the back verandah of his home and saw the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. There was no sound, but William was aware of the smell of burning... Later, his father dead by fire and his mother plagued by demons of her own, William is cast upon the char ...Show more
This Census-Taker by China Mieville
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event. He tries - and fails - to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape. When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his ...Show more
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
$15.00 AUD
$32.99 (54% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his career. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is he and what has he had to do to surv ...Show more
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$200.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamilia ...Show more
When the Sky Fell Apart by Caroline Lea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
She turned to look at the sea. Flat stretch of water, blank and blue as the sky above. Pretty as a picture, except with black and grey craters where the bombs had fallen: as though some thuggish child had scrawled all over the picture out of spite alone...Jersey, June 1940. It starts with the burning ma ...Show more
Soldier's Curse (The Monsarrat Series #1) by Tom & Meg Keneally
$15.00 AUD
$32.99 (54% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: The\Monsarrat Ser.
A fast-paced, witty and gripping historical crime series from Tom Keneally and his eldest daughter Meg. In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing ...Show more
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
$125.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Reading Level: very good