Wicked But Virtuous: My Life

Mirka Mora

Few artists in Australia are held in such affectionate esteem as Mirka Mora. Even fewer have had such an amazing life. Narrowly avoiding Auschwitz during the Second World War, she and her husband Georges settled in Melbourne, where their landmark cafe-restaurants became a magnet for artists, writers and...

AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC: A LIFE OF ALBERT TUCKER

BURKE JANINE

The paperback edition of Janine Burke's highly acclaimed biography of Albert Tucker will bring this enthralling book a wide new readership. AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC is the first biography of Tucker, one of Australia's most significant and influential artists. A member of the 'Angry Penguins' group which includ...

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture....

The Hidden Oracle (#1 Trials of Apollo)

Rick Riordan

The first book in a breathtaking new series from Percy Jackson creator, Rick Riordan.How do you punish an immortal?By making him human.After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godl...