The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a ...Show more
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Vintage Magic Ser. | Reading Level: good
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, th ...Show more
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Reissued to coincide with the release of her new novel 'That Old Ace in the Hole', Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international best-seller and Pulitzer prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular r ...Show more
The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernieres
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent, with their 'pals' the Pitt boys on one side of the fence and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood innocence and adventure are des ...Show more
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
This is not a cautionary tale about too much - or the wrong kind - of fucking. This is not a story of bad things happening to bad girls. I say this because I know you, Dex, and I know how you think. I'm going to tell you a story, and this time, it will be the truth. Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were ...Show more
The Latecomer by Dimitri Verhulst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Désiré Cordier - mild-mannered former librarian, put-upon husband, lover of boules - is losing his mind. Or is he? Happily tucked away in the Winterlight Home for the Elderly, Désiré is looking forward to a quiet retirement with the other forgetful residents, safe in the knowledge that no one knows he's ...Show more
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Captain Tom Barnes is leading British troops in a war zone. Two boys are growing up there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites, before finding themselves separated once the soldiers appear in their countryside. On all sides of this conflict, people are about to be caught up in the violence, from t ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$150.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Reading Level: very good
Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family.
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