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Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
$19.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
Impossible Creatures (HB) by Katherine Rundell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.' - Michael MorpurgoIt was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures ...Show more
Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli HB by Katherine Rundell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-known characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. As Mowgli travels through the Indian jungle, this brilliantly visual tale, which weaves each shor ...Show more
One Christmas Wish by Katherine Rundell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Christmas Books
It's Christmas Eve and Theo - left at home with a babysitter - sees an odd-looking star out of his window and decides to make a wish. He wishes that he had some friends to keep him company. Moments later the Christmas decorations begin to disentangle themselves from the tree behind him, ready to wreak a ...Show more
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matt ...Show more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fictionFrom standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establis ...Show more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
‘Masterly.’ Observer ‘Wonderful, joyous.’ Maggie O'Farrell‘Frankly brilliant.’ Sunday Times‘Unmissable.’ Simon Jenkins ‘Every page sparkles.’ Claire Tomalin ‘A triumph.’ Matt Haig ‘Stylish, scholarly and gripping.’ Rose Tremain John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disas ...Show more
The Book of Hopes: Words and Pictures to Comfort, Inspire and Entertain by Katherine Rundell (Editor)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
In difficult times, what children really need is hope. And in that spirit, bestselling author Katherine Rundell emailed some of the children's writers and artists whose work she loved most:'I asked them to write something very short, fiction or non-fiction, or draw something that would make the children ...Show more
The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD by Katherine Rundell
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.As the plane crashes into t ...Show more
The Golden Mole, And other living treasure by Katherine Rundell
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals - a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to ...Show more
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals. The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' - Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' ...Show more
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
'Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.' Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing J ...Show more