The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander #4)

Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson (Translator)

The New York Times called Henning Mankell "that unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature and who has broken out as an international phenomenon," and his brilliant creation Detective Kurt Wallander is worthy of comparison to Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Martin Beck and ...

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces b...

Hades

Candice Fox

WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT 2014. A dark, compelling and original thriller that will have you spellbound from its atmospheric openingpages to its shocking climax. Hades Archer surrounds himself with the things others leave behind. Their trash becomes the twisted sculptures that line his...

The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier

Ayik Chut Deng

In episode 1 of the Ray Martin fronted SBS series Look me in the eye two South Sudanese migrants now resident in Brisbane sat across from each other and looked into each other's eyes. One of them, Ayik, was once a ten-year-old boy soldier training in the junior forces of the SPLA and like many of the yo...