Second Place by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.' Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at the cent ...Show more
Never Too Late by Danielle Steel
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
<b>An act of terror. A summer of change . . . </b> <b><i>Never Too Late</i> is a stirring drama about the power of human connection and embracing brave change, from the billion copy bestseller, Danielle Steel.</b> Following the death of her beloved husband, Kezia Coop ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
The Far Pavilions by M M Kaye
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
"The Far Pavilions" is the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between E ...Show more
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 b>'You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story ... fantastic' ZADIE SMITHak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents it was obvious from the way his fathe ...Show more
Olympia: The Birth of the Games by John Martino
$59.99 AUD
Category: General
AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS In ancient Greece and across the Mediterranean, kingdoms strive for dominance. The great powers of Carthage and Egypt look on with avarice as the might of the Greeks is spent warring between themselves, oblivious to external dangers. Year in and year out, the people suffer at the hand ...Show more
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
'Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolano, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train' - Dave EggersWelcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children ...Show more
Too Many Men by Lily Brett
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Ruth Rothwax, a successful woman with her own business, Rothwax Correspondence, can find order and meaning in writing words for other people - condolence letters, thank-you letters, even you-were-great-in-bed letters. But as the daughter of Edek Rothwax, an Auschwitz survivor with a somewhat idiosyncrat ...Show more
Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn, Shonda Rhimes
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: A\Bridgertons Prequel Ser.
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn and television pioneer Shonda Rhimes comes a powerful and romantic novel of Bridgerton's Queen Charlotte and King George III's great love story and how it sparked a societal shift, inspired by the original series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, ...Show more
The Gentleman From Peru by Andre Aciman
$26.99 AUD
Category: General
A dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story from the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name. We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves ...Show more
Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song. But as evidence threatens Juniper's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she ...Show more