Trains and Lovers: The Heart's Journey by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. ...Show more
Women by Charles Bukowski
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: CB | Reading Level: good
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sud ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition by George Orwell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times, "1984", now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1949, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a ...Show more
The Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.' For fans of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Phillip Pulman, Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel is the story of a Jewish man, Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea ...Show more
The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
"His first novel is a revelation ...the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ...wonderful". ("The Times"). "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and b ...Show more
Carry the One (POD) by Carol Anshaw
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For fans of the film "The Big Chill", Anne Tyler's Dinner at Homesick Restaurant and Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved, in her fourth novel, Carry the One, Carol Anshaw explores the after effects of one night's terrible trauma on three siblings over 25 years. In the early hours of the morning, following a we ...Show more
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
$21.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
New York Times Bestseller "Timeless and vast... The raw beauty of Ms. Groff's prose is one of the best things about "Arcadia." But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor." --Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "Even the most incidental details vibrate with life "Arcadia" wends a harrowing pa ...Show more
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel by Mo Yan
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Today's most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero-or antihero-of Mo Yan's novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness and benevolence t ...Show more
The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Indonesian record-breaking bestseller, in the tradition of Slumdog Millionaire and Shantaram. Ikal is a student at Muhammadiyah Elementary, on the Indonesian island of Belitong, where graduating from sixth grade is considered a major achievement. His school is under constant threat of closure. In fa ...Show more
The Cartographer (Prize winner Indie s/l 2013) by Peter Twohig
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An amazingly bold, inventive and enchanting debut. Set in the 1950s, a 10-year-old boy witnesses a murder when he is spying through a window of a strange house. In the following weeks he comes to map out all the significant adventures he has in the labyrinthine city trying to make sure he doesn't cross ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into t ...Show more