Tears of Monterini by Am; a Weinberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Monterini, Italy. 1921. Yacobo Levi, an intellectual dreamer, works in the family bookshop. Angelo Ghione, a contadino, makes good wine by singing to the grapes. Lifetime best friends, their Jewish and Catholic families live side by side amidst a backdrop of village communal life, Etruscan tales and the ...Show more
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him until a chance encounter changes everything. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Orego ...Show more
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgo ...Show more
The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense. With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is ...Show more
Paradise Estate by Max Easton
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
It’s 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal belonging: a zine maker w ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: HB Gift Edition by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$34.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi's moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? In a s ...Show more
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopa ...Show more
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
$23.99 AUD
Category: General
A foreboding and darkly comic period thriller considered the inspiration for du Maurier's Rebecca, Vera is a deftly plotted masterpiece woven with intrigueWhen Lucy Entwhistle's father dies suddenly, she is left alone in the world struggling to find her place in life. But on the very same day she happen ...Show more
Swan Song of A J Wentworth by H. F. Ellis
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The last of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless assistant schoolmaster.It is to be A.J. Wentworth's final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown - or, to be more precise, Rawlinson's cap and gown - and returns to Burgrove for just one more time.His final term incl ...Show more
Late: A Novel by Michael Fitzgerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
'So, was it hard to pretend I was "dead"? Well, my motivation was abundant; it was splendiferous, endless, you might say.'An American actress, renowned for being late, is living with her two cats in a modernist clifftop apartment in Sydney in the late 1980s. The recounting of her story is prompted by th ...Show more