Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account o ...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
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year-old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both w ...Show more
The Cheffe: A Culinary Novel by Marie NDiaye
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement" - Madeleine Schwartz, New York Review of Books"Rich, meandering . . . NDiaye excels at luscious, forensic descriptions of the ritualistic preparation of food" - Catherine Taylor, Mail on ...Show more
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more
Voices In The Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this elegant novel, a young unmarried woman conveys the tragedies, loves, and social entanglements of a village at the time of fascism, war and postwar urbanization.
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.
Outline: A Novel (Outline trilogy #1) by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more
I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collect ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more