The Penguin Book of the City by Robert Drewe (Editor)
$19.75 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Symbol of humanity's energy, optimism, art and civilisation, the city is the fount of intellectual and sexual freedom - a continuing source of wonder and modernity. And yet, in an uncaring mood, the city can be overbearing, anonymous, alienating, even savage - with the ability to chill the soul.The urba ...Show more
Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
You wouldn't notice Mr Malik in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb-over - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lie a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his closest friends know it, but Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the local ...Show more
The Witch Of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble
$16.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Freda Haxby is as famous for her writing as she is for her eccentricities. But for Daniel Palmer, Rosemary, Grace and their families, she is a monster mother. This is the story of an end-of-the-century family whose comfortable lives are disrupted by a succession of sinister events.
Sign by Colin Dray
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A captivating novel full of strength, quiet courage and the struggle to overcome silence.Sam is a young boy recovering from an operation that has left him unable to speak ever again. He lives with his mother and sister Katie, all dutifully cared for by Aunt Dettie, their father's sister, who believes he ...Show more
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Written in two parts - in the first, an 18th century Korean Queen tells the story of a difficult marriage to the violent Crown Prince. Her ghost narrates the story 200 years later. The second half deals with an academic on a conference who has an affair - and the similarities the women share.
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Candida Wilton arrives in London ? alone, divorced and without much money. Yet she is filled with a strange excitement ? what might happen to her now in her final years? Prepared to fill her empty life with little events and pleasures ? trips to a gym, visits to her reading group ? she finds her horizon ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1912, a child in a Yorkshire mining town studies for the Cambridge entrance exam so she can escape to another life. Decades later Faro, her granddaughter, returns. Faro?s father was the son of refugees who fled European unrest. But for all her exotic ancestry and glamour, has she travelled any furthe ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$25.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Bawtry family has been in South Yorkshire for generations when Bessie is born just before the turn of the last century. The Bawtrys have been content with their humble lot, but Bessie longs for the freedom promised by a new beginning. However, when she succeeds in being admitted to Cambridge and asc ...Show more
The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$16.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A scientific expedition sets out to explore a plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate, this lost world holds great danger for the men, from both fiendish ape-men and terrifying prehistoric creatures.