Quarantine by Jim Crace
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
*Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award**Shortlisted for the Booker Prize*'Dazzling, gritty brilliance' - Sunday Times'Completely captivating' - Literary ReviewJim Crace's provocative retelling of Jesus' forty day fast in the desert is a classic that tampers with tradition. Moving and fascinating in equal ...Show more
THE TWELVE CHAIRS A NOVEL by ILF ILYA
$46.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Northwestern World Classics Ser.
Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov's Russian classic fully to life. The novel's iconic hero, Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist livin ...Show more
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Roald Dahl Classic Collection
"The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. 'Hop in,' he said, opening his enormous beak . . ." MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats! AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, ...Show more
Coexistence - Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt
$0.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter's love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroticism. A man just out of prison balances the uneasy weight of family and freedom, while a professor retur ...Show more
Mouth - Stories by Puloma Ghosh
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Sometimes surreal, sometimes horrifying, always startling . . . Mouth introduces readers to Puloma Ghosh's unmatched ability to probe the visceral depths of female pain, desire, and grief." --Alice Martin, Shelf Awareness "A unique set of stories that show the promise of a bold new voice." --Kirkus Re ...Show more
The Fruit Thief - Or, One-Way Journey into the Interior: a Novel by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke--one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original works On a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee. "The sting signaled that the time had come to set out, to hit the road. Off with you. The hour of departure has arrived." ...Show more
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and na ve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of he ...Show more
The Divine Wind by Garry Disher
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alice, Hartley, Mitsy and Jamie are kids growing up in Broome before the Second World War. Their lives, although very different, are bound by friendship. Hartley and Alice Penrose are the children of an uneducated pearling master and a cultivated, disgruntled mother. Mitsy Sennosuke is Japanese, the dau ...Show more
Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo; Yan Yan (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your balls crushed.' Twenty-one-year-old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing his virginity. His dreams come true in the shape of the beautiful doctor Cheng Qinyang. So begins the ...Show more
A House Built on Sand by Tina Shaw
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files--and her job as a result. Her marbles? 'Mild cognitive impairment', according to the doctor. Time for a nursing home, according to her daughter, Rose. Rose has her own troubles with memory: a recurring vi ...Show more
Querelle of Brest by Jean Genet
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work, which includes a new introduction by Jon Savage. 'One of the great writers of our times.' Sunday Telegraph Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer, Lieutenant Seblon ...Show more
Death at the Sign of the Rook (#6 Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize - a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sleuth and his sidekick - except that the sleuth is Jackson Brodie, and the 'sidekick' is DC Reggie Chase. ...Show more