The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In this, his much-loved first novel, Leonard Cohen etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of wealthy Jewish parents in Montreal. Finding literary fame as a student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, before eventually fleeing to New York to escape the claims of h ...Show more
The Song of Leonard Cohen by Harry Rasky
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Harry Rasky made the film The Song of Leonard Cohen. Cohen was in touch with Rasky and, inspired by that conversation, Rasky has recreated the text of the film, the diaries, and the interviews upon which the film is based.
Death of a Lady's Man: A Collection of Poetry and Prose by Leonard Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
This is a collection of poetry and prose, interspersed with lyrics, discursive passages and diary extracts from the legendary Canadian songwriter-poet. First published in 1978, the book's theme is love with all its dilemmas, and it is largely autobiographical in tone, offering the reader insights into C ...Show more
Yesterday's Tomorrow: Leonard Cohen by Marc Hendrickx
$26.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Focusing on a man who succeeded unlike any other in reconciling literature and poetry with pop music, this analysis digs deep into the work of Leonard Cohen and finds original views on humanity, happiness, consciousness, love, old age, and death. Offering a new perspective, the book gives a lively insig ...Show more
Old Filth
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny novel is a must.""The Times" "Gardam's superb new novel is surely her masterpiece . . . one of the most moving fictions I have read in years . . . This is the rare novel that drives its readers forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the ...Show more
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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Category: General Fiction
The book that has taken the US and UK by storm. Enter a vanished and unjust world- Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic d ...Show more
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress ...Show more
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the sweltering summer of 1938 in Portugal, a country under the fascist shadow of Spain, a mysterious young man arrives at the doorstep of Dr Pereira. So begins an unlikely alliance that will result in a devastating act of rebellion. This is Pereira's testimony.
A Love Letter from a Stray Moon by Jay Griffiths
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Category: General Fiction
In this fictional tour de force Jay Griffiths, acclaimed author of Wild, creates a portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo, her devastating accident and her love for Diego Rivera, that is also a celebration of the spirit of poetry and the art of rebellion. This edition contains a preface by John Berger. Sp ...Show more
A Secret Kept by Tatiana De Rosnay
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Antoine Rey thought he had the perfect surprise for his sister Melanie's birthday: a weekend by the sea at Noirmoutier Island, where the pair spent many happy childhood summers playing on the beach. It had been too long, Antoine thought, since they'd returned to the island--over thirty years, since thei ...Show more
La Llave de Sarah by Tatiana De Rosnay
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Paris, July 1942: The French police brutally arrest ten year-old Sarah and her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard thinking that she'll be back in a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, Julia Jarmond is asked to write an ...Show more