Drivers Seat by Muriel Spark
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional exper ...Show more
Pedro Páramo by Juán Rulfo; Douglas J. Weatherford (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A new translation of the legendary Mexican classic of magic realism which went on to inspire the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant families
The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of ...Show more
Since the Accident by Jen Craig
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a suburban Sydney pub, a woman tells her younger sister the story of how her life has changed since a serious car accident. She speaks of the blossoming of romance, the rediscovery of her long-dormant creativity: her ability to draw. And yet an exhibition comes to nothing, a lover is abandoned. She l ...Show more
Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman sets out from a quiet corner of Glebe in Sydney towards the bustle of Broadway and Surry Hills, carrying with her the manuscript of a childhood friend who has recently died. Her thoughts surge between past and present as she strives to understand the effect on her of her dead friend's manuscript ...Show more
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar , Julia Sanches (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like'; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred ...Show more
A Shock by Keith Ridgway
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Shock inhabits the secret life of a city, its hidden energies. It dramatizes how patterns form and then disperse, how stories are made and relationships created . . . remarkable' - Colm Tóibín'Political, pertinent, spunky and funny, A Shock is a grand sweep of modern storytelling' - June Caldwell In A ...Show more
What Was Before by Martin Mosebach; Kári Driscoll (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Martin Mosebach's novel What Was Before opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful question, one that sounds so innocent but carries toxic seeds of jealousy: What was your life like before you met me? ...Show more
An Answer from the Silence - A Story from the Mountains by Max Frisch; Mike Mitchell (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world? " This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the hero of ...Show more
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy; Heather Cleary (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation ...Show more
The Dyehouse: Text Classics by Mena Calthorpe
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"Written with unerring skill and insight, The Dyehouse is a masterly portrait of postwar Australia,when industrial work was radically transformed by new technologies and society changed with it. Mena Calthorpe:who herself worked in a textile factory:takes us inside this world, vividly bringing to life t ...Show more