Family Furnishings: Selected Stories 1995-2014

MUNRO ALICE

A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune Here is a selection of Munro's most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994. These stories encompass the fullness...

The Shepherd's Hut

Tim Winton

Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther...

Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

John Gray

A playful yet profound examination of what cats can teach us about life and how to live it. 'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather it seems that at some point cats ...

Hope

Rosie Batty

After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a singular woman who has experienced tragedy, who had lost all hope, yet now is intent on finding it again. On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty ...