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Arlo and the Vortex Voyage
$8.00 (GST-inc)Winner, IP Picks Best Junior Prose, 2010, Arlo and the Vortex Voyage is a fascinating fantasy. When Arlo and Kate go rock-climbing, the last thing they expect is to be caught up in a vortex and transported through to another universe. The absence of television and junk food is the least of their problems.
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Black Books Publishing
$17.00 (GST-inc)PhD student Dylan Cashew abandons his thesis on D. H. Lawrence for the uncertain world of top secret aerospace editing, college teaching and then independent publishing.
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Cassowary Hill
$17.00 (GST-inc)After three months of wandering on the other side of the globe, I arrived home one October morning to find that my front door had been kicked in by a large bird. This was my neighbour, who was standing in shattered glass on my doorstep, looking at me in a troubled way with his head on one side…
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Cassowary Hill, NA edition
$17.00 (GST-inc)After three months of wandering on the other side of the globe, I arrived home one October morning to find that my front door had been kicked in by a large bird. This was my neighbour, who was standing in shattered glass on my doorstep, looking at me in a troubled way with his head on one side…
This is the North American edition of the original novel by David de Vaux.
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Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen
$17.00 (GST-inc)Eleanor of Aquitaine is intelligent and beautiful, her immense wealth desired by kings. Her father’s dying wish places the young heiress under the guardianship of King Louis VI of France, who marries her to his monkish son. The pious French Court considers her education and intellect shameful. She is accused of emulating men, regarded as her betters. It is emphasised she is there to breed, look decorative, and keep her eloquent mouth shut.
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From Ashes to Ashes
$15.00 (GST-inc)From Ashes to Ashes tells the story of Peter Morrison, son of a school teacher in rural New South Wales. When Peter’s beloved teacher is pushed to enlist in World War II by his father, his boyhood is fractured by trauma and doubt.
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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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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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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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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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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. -
Serpent’s Wake: a Tale for the Bitten
$16.00 (GST-inc)After twelve years trapped in the throat of a serpent, a girl escapes. She returns to her village naked with a monstrous snakeskin trailing behind her. One decision at a time, she reclaims her life. Each character she encounters by land and sea—brute, healer, orphan, mystic, lover—reflects an unhealed aspect of herself and plots her recovery through symbolic milestones. Serpent’s Wake is intended for adults and young adults exploring how, once fractured, we may mend.
It snarls and hisses at categorization, but will etch itself onto the minds and souls of anyone discerning enough to lose themselves
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Shades of Exodus
$15.00 (GST-inc)Shades of Exodus, a novel by Barry Levy, Interactive Press, an imprint of IP (Interactive Publications)
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The Handkerchief Map
$13.00 (GST-inc)Creates three distinct points of view on life in letter form during World War II from Helga, a German girl bent on joining the Resistance; Franz, a young Nazi soldier who begins to question the war; and Susanna, a Jewess who is imprisoned in concentration camp. Second edition of the novel written when Kiri was just a teenager.
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The Lion and the Tigress
$17.00 (GST-inc)In the second book from the Eleanor of Aquitaine Series, as the blind seer from Antioch predicted, Eleanor marries the love of her life, Henry II of England. Passion rules the marriage as alpha male and alpha female compete for dominance. Meanwhile, to drag his war-torn kingdom back from the brink of anarchy, Henry must rely on the resources of the Eleanor’s Aquitaine.
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The Signatory – a crime novel
$17.00 (GST-inc)After selling his start-up business, Sam has the kind of money only dreams are made of. Young, and married to the love of his life, it’s time for Sam to enjoy his good fortune. That is, until Sam’s Chief Financial Officer is taken hostage by a ruthless criminal demanding a document in his possession. A brutal murder follows, Sam is the prime suspect, and soon he and his wife, Lauren, are on the run from both the police and a faceless network of conspirators somehow connected to the company they just bought out.
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The Tigress Caged
$17.00 (GST-inc)In the third volume of the Eleanor of Acquitaine novels, Eleanor finds herself torn between her early love for Henry II of England and resistance to his constant bullying of her and her sons in his fear of being superceded by his ambitious offspring.
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The Umbilical Word
$30.00 (GST-inc)A contemporary novel about chasing dreams, confronting loss and discovering what’s important in life. A must-read for every parent and parent-to-be.
