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Jason Chen and the Time Banana
$17.00 (GST-inc)Jason Chen learns of a strange and powerful machine lurking in his neighbour’s backyard. Mrs Bryant is supposed to be weird, but she buys fish and chips from his parents’ café so he thinks she can’t be too bad. But Mrs B has a secret. And when she says she can’t succeed in her dangerous mission without him, Jason agrees to join her for a ride in her Time Banana.
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Just Off Message: a 20th Anniversary Anthology
$16.00 (GST-inc)From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices sought an independent publishing house with a global vision and an innovative approach. They found IP.
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Kafiristan
$15.00 (GST-inc)Winner, 2014 IP Rolling Picks Best Fiction
Kafiristan is a story of friendship, betrayal and retribution. We follow the fortunes of Ahmed Taseer, a boy from an isolated mountain village in Afghanistan. When a close friend is orphaned and seized by the Taliban to become a suicide bomber, Ahmed and his friend Haziz retaliate.
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La Chute du Mur
$9.00 (GST-inc)Chosen title: Canadian Children’s Book Center catalog best books for children and teenagers 2013! In The Fall of the Wall , Joshua misses his grandfather, but his mother forbids him to see him. She doesn’t want to explain why, but Joshua suspects it has something to do with his new wife, Riva.
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Las Armas de Fuego
$8.00 (GST-inc)Like many other children, Juan is fascinated with weapons, games and fire.
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Liars & Lovers
$30.00 (GST-inc)This is a novel for those who never risk more than a cappuccino and Death by Chocolate at their local café. Or for those who’d rather knit while Rome burns. Or those who’d rent a concert hall to perform their own concerto — if they could ever write beyond the first measure. Or those born to win Silk at the Bar. Or those who just dream of women with buck teeth and brown eyes…
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Memento Mori
$15.00 (GST-inc)Daniel King’s short story collection cycles through the shadowy landscapes of death, gnarled relationships, the slippery side of human nature, even the contemporary lure of cosmetic surgery pushed to a surprising extreme.
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Memento Mori (Traduzione italiana)
$15.00 (GST-inc)La raccolta di racconti di Daniel King attraversa gli indistinti paesaggi della morte, delle relazioni inasprite dalla vita, dei lati instabili della natura umana, anche dell’attrazione contemporanea della chirurgia plastica spinta ad un sorprendente estremo.
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More Lies
$13.00 (GST-inc)More Lies is a highly referential comedy thriller about a writer being held hostage in their own apartment and forced to type to hide the manoeuvres of a femme fatale, holding a pearl handled gun, and her brother, a small-time thug with big time ambitions.
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Mum: speaking Latin with a singlet tan
$25.00 (GST-inc)Join artist Dale Kentwell on her journey of discovery into the heart of Outback Australia where she explores the essentials of artistic expression, survival, motherhood, and being.
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No Matter Who We’re With
$8.00 (GST-inc)A reassuring story about the lives of two children whose parents are separated. Even though their parents live apart, the children are certain of one thing: they are always loved. This story helps children come to terms with the separation of their parents, and shows the unconditional love and security children can feel with each parent, no matter where they live.
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No One’s Child
$30.11 (GST-inc)Following the success of her intriguing memoir set in Singapore and Malaya, The Girl with the Cardboard Port, Judith McNeil returns to her homeland Australia in No One’s Child.
This is the remarkable story of her childhood as a ‘railway brat’, growing up along the rail tracks in small towns while her father worked on the lines.
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Outer Space, Inner Minds
$13.00 (GST-inc)Even more so, they have speculated on the celestial objects that we can see with a naked eye and those beyond the reach of our most powerful telescopes and space probes. We continue ask is there life beyond our fragile atmosphere, our solar system, our galaxy—or are we alone, a cosmic accident in an otherwise lifeless universe? And, if other lifeforms do exist on moons or distant exoplanets elsewhere, what form/s does it take? Is it intelligent, more or less so than we humans are?
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Over My Dead Body
$30.00 (GST-inc)Marked by the events of the Great Flood of 1893 and the formation of the first miners’ unions, Over My Dead Body is an Australian epic; a literary feat exemplifying a writer’s craftsmanship and dedication to bringing history alive. It puts Australia’s current resource-driven prosperity into context by showing the day to day struggles of ordinary workers just trying to get by for themselves and their families at a time when the individual was virtually power-less against the arrogance of his employer, and expendable if work-related illness overtook him.
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Pangea and almost back
$13.00 (GST-inc)In this time-traveling adventure, Freddie O’Toole’s is in search for his real father who has disappeared in a plane crash several years earlier. His guardian sends Freddie on a secret expedition to Timor where Freddie and his crusty manservant, Gruntenguile, are chased by Snapahuti headhunters.
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Past Perfect
$15.00 (GST-inc)Prompted by a brush with mortality, her children approaching adulthood and the relationship with her husband being tested, Sue Spencer embarks on a search for meaning in her life–for a better sense of who she might be.
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Primary Instinct
$15.00 (GST-inc)In his second novel, satirist David P. Reiter does for the Australian education system what the BBC series Teachers did for the British system.
Like every primary teacher, Cherry Kaufman had her ideals – once. You put in the hours, get the degree and hope your first job isn’t a five hour drive west of Blackbutt. -
Real Guns
$9.00 (GST-inc)Jon, like many young boys, is fascinated by guns. He finds a loaded pistol hidden under his parents’ bed, with nearly tragic consequences. The close call prompts his father to explain to Jon why he needs to keep the gun, forging a much closer bond between father and son.
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Secret Writing
$27.00 (GST-inc)Secret Writing takes the reader on a journey through two lives, brought together by the “secret writing” in Albert Namatjira’s paintings. Luis and Pearl are very different, and yet a chance meeting at a hospital on the Costa del Sol ignites a quest for both of them.
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Sergio Spaghetti and friends
$8.00 (GST-inc)Sergio Spaghetti tells them he is the “tastiest food in the whole, wide world” and things get even stranger from there, with every food at the table taking on its own personality. The brother realise that eating will never again be boring, and their parents are delighted by their change in attitude. An especially helpful book to encourage reluctant eaters.
