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The Turning by Tim Winton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, Tim Winton describes turnings of all kinds: second thoughts, changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, abrupt... -
Shallows by Tim Winton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Tim Winton brings the landscape to life in Shallows, a historical fiction novel about pride and loneliness.One hundred and fifty years after the establishment of land-based whaling in Australia, its... -
Breath by Tim Winton 9780312428396
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312428396Author Tim WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is about what it takes to keep hope alive in a parched and brutal world... -
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton 9781250035516
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $25.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250035516Author Tim WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint -
The Turning: Stories by Tim Winton 9780743279796
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $21.16Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton 9780330322690 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $5.01'A fragmented, hilarious, crude, mystical soap opera. In a rich Australian idiom, Winton lets his characters rip against an evocation of Perth so intense you can smell it' Sunday Telegraph... -
The Riders by Tim Winton 9780330339421 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.99Fred Scully has decided to leave Australia to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. He labours alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, but when he arrives at the... -
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton's days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled... -
The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life by Tim Winton
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word.' - ObserverThe Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection... -
Dust Off the Bones Paul Howarth 9781911590538
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36'Terrific... Highly recommended' Adrian McKinty, author of The Chain Even in the vast outback, the past can't stay buried for ever Death follows Tommy McBride everywhere. Five years ago his... -
Southern Aurora Mark Brandi 9780733649325
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75We always listen out for the train when we're down in the cutting because sometimes they come quicker than you expect. There aren't as many trains as there used to be. Mostly just the freight ones,... -
Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo by Paige Gibbs
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868194783Author Tim WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
Why We Garden: On the joy and wonder of growing things, even when we don't have to Hannah Moloney 9781923135345
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.93In a world of well-stocked supermarkets and florists, why do we garden, even though we don't have to?This was the question that fascinated Hannah Moloney. So she went out and asked. She spoke to... -
The Swan Book Alexis Wright 9781472120571
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute... -
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'Striking...brilliantly done' The TimesAn ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. Anna's aged mother is dying - if her... -
Hollywood Charles Bukowski 9781786891679
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'What will you do?' 'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.' 'What are you going to call it?' 'Hollywood.' Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and... -
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.89INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye... -
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.21'A blazing mystery . . . tremendous' Guardian'Moving and masterful' Daily Mail'Masterful storytelling' Washington Post'Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. It is marvellous' Ann... -
The Sun Walks Down: 'Steinbeckian majesty' - Sunday Times Fiona McFarlane 9781529389869
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable' ANN PATCHETT 'A blazing mystery . . . tremendous' GUARDIAN 'Masterful storytelling' WASHINGTON POST 'Gloriously... -
Bad Debts Peter Temple 9781782064800
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35THE AWARD-WINNING DEBUT NOVEL, AND FIRST JACK IRISH THRILLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BROKEN SHORE AND TRUTH.'Put simply, Temple is a master' John Harvey'Great locations, hard-nosed dialogue and a... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned... -
Black Tide Peter Temple 9781782064817
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE JACK IRISH SERIES, NOW A TV SERIES STARRING GUY PEARCE - FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BROKEN SHORE.'One of the best thriller writers in the world' Sunday... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford 9780099772910 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.02Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned... -
An Iron Rose Peter Temple 9780857383525
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STANDALONE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BROKEN SHORE.'An Iron Rose shows just how good he is . . . the characters are brilliantly realised' Sunday Telegraph When men in... -
Bittersweet by Danielle Steel 9780552145039 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.11India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly-maintained calendars. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she... -
More Matter: Essays And Criticism by John Updike 9780140289701
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10More Matter is a collection of John Updike's best-loved critical essays and reflections.From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England, More Matter is a lively discussion on contemporary... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen William Shakespeare 9780241200568
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43Considered by Thomas de Quincey to be 'perhaps the most superb work in the language', The Two Noble Kinsmen is set in Athens and was co-written by Shakespeare with John Fletcher. This Penguin... -
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail 9781860464959 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.37On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the... -
Bittersweet by Danielle Steel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly-maintained calendars. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she... -
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail 9781784876906
Booksplease Price: $16.98'A masterpiece. A novel of high seriousness and higher playfulness' Michael Hulse, Spectator On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and... -
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.66Eleven-year-old Arn is walking through the countryside in Cambodia. His whole town is walking with him. They're walking into one of the most tragic moments of history: the Killing Fields.Music will... -
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature... -
In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey 9780241982433
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A brilliant young woman and an older, more powerful man in a tale of slow-burning obsession and retribution - for fans of Patricia Highsmith and Rachel Cusk'This psychological thriller examines what... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers... -
An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' by Immanuel Kant
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he... -
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and... -
An Apology for Raymond Sebond by Michel Montaigne 9780140444933
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century... -
The Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich 9780099526520
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81The Mayor's Tongue is a bold, vertiginous debut novel that unfolds in two narratives, one following a young man and the other an old man. The young man is Eugene Brentani, a devotee of the reclusive... -
Dating Game: an epic summer read from the Sunday Times bestseller by Danielle Steel 9780552149907 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.24Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said...