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Set in hardscrabble farming country and around the country show high-jumping circuit that prevailed in rural New...  Read More >>

Now in paperback. Destiny, courage, longing, revenge! The first stirring adventure in a brilliant YA series from...  Read More >>

The X-Men do not kill. But when Apocalypse - the mutant despot who has countless times brought humanity to the brink...  Read More >>

At twenty-something, Alice is hungry for the milestones of young womanhood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding...  Read More >>

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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and Pacific Region Acclaimed Australian writer...  Read More >>

Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children...  Read More >>

An epic, awe-inspiring novel of good and evil that is destined to be a global bestseller. Read by Edward Herrmann....  Read More >>

Sydney, 1942. Pearl is 18 beautiful and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero....  Read More >>

Originally published in single magazine form in Gotham Central #32-40.  Read More >>

1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. In the town NSW of Flint,...  Read More >>

Features 1001 paintings, ranging from ancient Egyptian wallpaintings to contemporary Western canvases, which were...  Read More >>

In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans has been abandoned by most citizens. But resident...  Read More >>

When Anand Giridharadas returned to India amid an unlikely economic boom he was interested less in its gold rush...  Read More >>

Told as a series of dictionary entries, The Lover's Dictionary is an intimate portrait of a relationship in all...  Read More >>

Presents photographs of the celebrated netsuke collection - 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger...  Read More >>

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are...  Read More >>

What's your type? Suddenly everyone's obsessed with fonts. Whether you're enraged by Ikea's Verdanagate, want to...  Read More >>

An old friend, a best friend, a first love and the dreamer Neil Cronk who connects them all. Four schoolfriends...  Read More >>

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An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows...  Read More >>

Charlie Bucktin is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast...  Read More >>

Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet.  Read More >>

Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller  Read More >>

The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer.  Read More >>