Item category 1: Classics

This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer. Set in Australia and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, The Cardboa...

It is the Great Depression. Six-year-old PS is an orphan. He lives in Sydney with his Aunt Lila. But all that is about to change. Now his Aunt Vanessa has decided to take proper care of him.

Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, l...

Bond is sent to a casino in Royal-les-Eaux to disgrace the lethal Russian agent 'Le Chiffre' by ruining him at baccarat and forcing his Soviet spymasters to 'retire' him, but he soon finds that his quarry is not content to go without a fight.

Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. A satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. A satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. A satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

Disgusted with the phoniness of adults and expelled from school, sixteen year old Holden Caulfield decides to spend three days alone in New York City instead of going home. He gives a sensitive and frank account of the mental turmoil and disillusionment he undergoes.