The Color Purple by Alice Walker
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Hachette Essentials
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own fami ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The classic, PULITZER PRIZE-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children t ...Show more
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Modern Classics
Re-release of John Le Carré's most surprising book. Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared.Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur g ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Count ...Show more
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Good Friday 1612. Pendle Hill. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by a local magistrate. Is it a witches' Sabbat? In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial and certain death, while the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter rides to their defence. Elsewhere a starved child ...Show more
The Deadly Space Between by Patricia Duncker
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a barrister. Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Toby's world remains a small, closed round of ...Show more
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Devil All the Time is a hauntingly intense portrait of America and a shattering vision of violence and redemption.Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, it follows a cast of riveting and bizarre characters from the end of the Second World War to the 1960s. Willard Russell is a tormented veter ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
As "The Dream of the Celt" opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past yea ...Show more
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The bestseller from the author of the upcoming new novel The Year of the Farmer. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET AND LIAM HEMSWORTHTilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier ...Show more
The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times exploring race, gender, violence and inheritance.Deep in the heart of Australia's high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson and her four surviving children, another on the ...Show more