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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction | Series: The Perennial Collection
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. 'The Stone Diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Repackaged as pa ...Show more
The Story of Gilgamesh by Yiyun Li
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
The oldest written story on Earth, retold for children "A real friend is a companion for your heart." Godlike Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, has built a beautiful city, but is also a terrible tyrant. In answer to the prayers of his oppressed citizens, the gods create Enkidu, a wild man whose destiny is to fir ...Show more
The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks.Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the ...Show more
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Sunday Times Novel of the YearLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeA magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit ...Show more
The Sugar and Spice Collection by Anouska Jones
Category: Children's | Series: The Sugar and Spice Collection
In these three delightful stories, fairies, ponies and ballerinas come out to play! In Dance with Me, a ballerina in a music box loves nothing more than to dance. But when the little girl who owns the box grows up, who will dance with the ballerina then? A gorgeous story about treasured possessions and ...Show more
The Sussex Vampire by Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Stephanie Baudet (Adapted by)
Category: Children's | Series: The\Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection (Easy Classics) Ser.
An illustrated adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes adventure - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages Holmes and Watson take on their strangest case yet when a distraught husband comes to them desperate to understand his wife's weird behavior. He's caught her sucking the blood of their ...Show more
The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
'A work of rare brilliance' The Times Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks into his shop, Harry's fantastical inventions take ...Show more
The Tasmanian Devil by Pauline Reilly; Will Rolland (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: Collection of Australian Animals Ser.
The Things Kids Say
Category: Gifts | Series: Collection of Childrens Thoughts
What better than to look at the world through the eyes of our children! This beautiful collection contains thoughts and quotations by children. Most importantly there is now room for you to personalise this book by recording your own child's thoughts and sayings as well as their photos.
The Three Musketeers by DUMAS ALEXANDER
Category: Children's SPECIALS | Series: Classic Collection
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Classic Collection
"All for one and one for all!" This is the motto of the three musketeers. Join Athos, Porthos, Aramis and their brave new friend d'Artagnan in a world of thrilling swordfights and deadly schemes. Can they overcome their cunning enemies? Will d'Artagnan ever be a musketeer himself?
The Three Students by Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator); Arthur Doyle; Stephanie Baudet
Category: Children's | Series: The\Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection (Easy Classics) Ser.
An illustrated adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes adventure - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages A leisurely research trip turns into a race against time when Professor Soames comes to Holmes and Watson with a bizarre mystery. Three students are suspected of cheating - can Holmes ...Show more