The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for FictionShortlisted for the International Dublin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year The breathtaking new novel from Eimear McBride, about an extraordinary, all ...Show more
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or i ...Show more
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch
$14.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders
This is a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Sacred and profane love are related opposites; the one enjoyed renders the other necessary, so that the ever unsatisfied heart swings constantly to and fro.
What Is Madness? by Darian Leader
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In What is Madness?, Darian Leader, the author of The New Black and Why do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? asks probing questions about madness, sanity and everything in between. What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is reall ...Show more
The Lover (from US) by Marguerite Duras
$32.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
An international bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover" has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the pre-war Indochina of Marguerite Duras' childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumu ...Show more
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a story of eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a vision of the wounds of the 20th century, and an attempt to heal them.
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Blue
The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portn ...Show more
The Bay Of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one ...Show more
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, Kingsley Amis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the girlf ...Show more
The New Black: Mourning, melancholia and depression by Darian Leader
$32.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or not ...Show more