Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubled past in this taut and compelling novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of An Island. In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the police. The remains of ...Show more
The Life Before Us by Romain Gary; Ralph Manheim (Translator); James Laughlin (Afterword by)
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb the stairs to their apartment, he determines to support her any w ...Show more
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIt is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.Willie ...Show more
The Unfolding by A. M. Homes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The dazzling new state-of-the-nation novel from one of America's most significant contemporary writers and winner of the Women's Prize for May We Be Forgiven, which explores the makings of our political times.
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, ...Show more
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past: the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder of a classmate, Thalia Keith. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death ...Show more
The Freedom of Emma Herwegh by Dirk Kurbjuweit
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From best-selling German author Dirk Kurbjuweit comes the story of Emma Herwegh, a woman ahead of her time. When Emma marries the revolutionary poet Georg Herwegh, she desires and promises only one thing- to love and hate by his side for the rest of their lives. Their marriage creates waves in Berlin a ...Show more
The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz; Antonia Lloyd-Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From a "master of verbal burlesque and a connoisseur of psychological blackmail" (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz's harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translation. Witold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland's greatest modernist, and in Th ...Show more
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. The Passenger is a dark, hallucinogenic novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men and The Road.'What a glorious sunset song . . . It's rich and it's strange, ...Show more
Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a cit ...Show more
The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra; Megan McDowell (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a 'short and strikingly original' (New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones - now published in the UK for the first time by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
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