The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensaryWhen we're grieving, when we're broken-hearted, and when we find ourselves struggling to understand the things we're feeling, we long for the connection poetry can provide. To find the right poem at that crucia ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her mome ...Show more
Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
Borderlands – Riding the Slipstream by Paul Collins (Editor); Isobelle Carmody (Foreword by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
A smorgasbord of original stories, poems and art by leading Australian authors, poets and illustrators Age range 11+Borderlands — Riding the Slipstream is an anthology for readers young and old.Featuring over forty short stories and poems by some of Australia’s best-loved authors — including Ursula Dubo ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Obsessed by creating ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Catch-22 (TVTI) by Joseph Heller
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
HEDLEY THOMAS: (Investigative journalist, creator of the podcast 'Teacher's Pet' & friend of Bookoccino) "A classic I somehow failed to read until this year, but inspired by George Clooney’s TV series I took the plunge and was soon having many spontaneous laugh-out-loud moments. Incredibly funny wi ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Book Club Edition Ser.
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivi ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Tim Winton | Reading Level: good-very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Blueback by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Tim Winton
'Winton ... convince s us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York TimesAbel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him an ...Show more
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more