The Poet Who Forgot by Catherine Cole
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
AD Hope was already a world-renowned poet and Catherine Cole a young undergraduate student of Australian Literature when a polite note from student to poet sparked a lively correspondence between the two that would continue over two decades, until Hopes death in 2000.
The Poet's Wife by Mandy Sayer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Even though we'd grown up in vastly different cultures and countries, we'd both known poverty, domestic violence and the expectation that neither one of us would ever amount to anything. That was probably what united us more than anything: our shared defiance of that prediction." She tap-danced on stre ...Show more
The Poison Plot (Sword Girl #2) by Frances Watts
$11.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Sword Girl | Reading Level: 7+
The second adventure in the Sword Girl series featuring the feisty Tommy Sir Walter is holding a banquet at Flamant Castle—but Tommy overhears one of the castle's enemies plotting to poison him. Unless she can foil the plot, Flamant will be at war! Can an unusual cure for a cold possibly save the day? ...Show more
The Poison Principle : A Memoir about family secrets and literary poisonings by Gail Bell
$1.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Dr William Macbeth poisoned two of his sons in1927, his wife and sister hid the murders in the intensely private realm of family secrets. Macbeth behaved as if he were immune to consequences and avoided detection and punishment. Or did he? Secrets can be as corrosive as poison, and as time passed, ...Show more
The Polish Deportees of World War II - Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal Throughout the World by Tadeusz Piotrowski (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Among the great tragedies that befell Poland during World War II was the forced deportation of its citizens by the Soviet Union during the first Soviet occupation of that country between 1939 and 1941. This is the story of that brutal Soviet ethnic cleansing campaign told in the words of some of the su ...Show more
The Politics Of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and The End of the Liberal Consensus (New Edition) by Peter Sutton
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Peter Sutton asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? The picture he presents is tragic. He marshals shocking evidence against the failures of the past, and argues provocatively that three decades of liberal consensus ...Show more
The Politics of Myth by Stephen Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In The Politics of Myth, Stephen Knight studies nine figures still vividly alive, all of them appearing in twenty-first century film and television. Analysing how they relate to the major themes of Power, Resistance and Knowledge, he shows how fact and fiction mix to help us explore and understand the c ...Show more
The Pool of Two Moons: Book 2, The Witches of Eileanan by Kate Forsyth
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fantasy Fiction | Series: Witches of Eileanan
The Witches of Eileanan, Book Two. At the Day of Reckoning witchcraft was outlawed in Eileanan. Behind the persecution is the beautiful and mysterious Banr gh. Not all the witches were killed on the Day of Reckoning.The wood witch Meghan leads the half-blackbird, half-man Bacaiche and the Scarred Warrio ...Show more
The Pope's Assassin by Tim Severin
$9.99 AUD
$29.99 (66% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Saxon
Rome, 799 AD. The Pope is viciously attacked in the street, by unknown assailants. Sigwulf, a Saxon prince who has been exiled to the court of King Carolus in France, is sent to Rome as a spy to discover who was responsible. There, he discovers a web of lies - the only clue to the attackers' identity is ...Show more
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She kno ...Show more
The Portrait by Ilaria Bernardini
$27.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
'A gripping story of love, death, art and deceit' - Sofka Zinovieff, author of Putney An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Martìn Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea ...Show more
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
$26.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Who, among you, deserves eternal life? Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in particular and mankind in general. Despite this, ...Show more