Wild Things: How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don't by Sally Rippin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. When Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, the best-selling children’s author assumed it would sort itself out over time. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her son’s dyslexia and ADHD went undiagnosed for years, leaving ...Show more
Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire #2) by Jay Kristoff
$35.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups | Series: Empire of the Vampire Ser.
The highly anticipated sequel to the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE 'Bloody brilliant' V.E. Schwab ‘A ripping read’ Joe Abercrombie Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. After turning his back on his silversaint brothers ...Show more
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups | Reading Level: good
THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio- Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by ...Show more
Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups | Reading Level: very good
Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song. But as evidence threatens Juniper's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she ...Show more
Homecoming by Kate Morton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Grown Ups
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Call Me By Your Name (Film tie-in) by Andre Aciman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups | Reading Level: very good
Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by James Ivory WINNER BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARD Nominated for Four Oscars A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Vulture Book Club P ...Show more
The Great Hunt: Book 2 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series) by Robert Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups | Series: The\Wheel of Time Ser.
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON PRIME VIDEOThe second novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published.The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled - but R ...Show more
The Eye Of The World: Book 1 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series) by Robert Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups | Series: The Wheel of Time 1 | Reading Level: very good
SOON TO BE A MAJOR AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES Prepare to turn the Wheel of Time - discover the first novel in one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. When their village is attacked by terrifying creatures, Rand al'Thor and his friends are forced to flee for their lives. An anci ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
$24.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups | Series: Faber Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
$26.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
$34.99 AUD
Category: Grown Ups
A brilliantly original, funny and astute debut that examines how we navigate life, love and choice in a world of never-ending options .. You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence - from p ...Show more