The Villain's Dance by Fiston Mwanza Mujila; Roland Glasser (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of veteran street kids led by the devious Ngungi. ...Show more
Bird by Courtney Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'You walk and the harvest moon casts the clearest of shadows. You are nervous. With a moon like that, it is not a night for escaping. It is a night made better for hunting runaway girls.' Himalayas: Unknown Year'Ten thousand strands of trouble,' is what Bird's father says, watching as Bird's sister brai ...Show more
Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SONG OF THE CROCODILE is a moving, wise and deeply rewarding novel from an astonishing writer' - Emily Maguire, author of AN ISOLATED INCIDENT Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the v ...Show more
The Bone Tree by Ngarewa, Airana
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A story of two brothers, born and raised in the shadow of Taranaki Maunga, from major new literary talent and No. 1 bestselling author Airana Ngarewa. Kauri and Black's mum has been gone six months now. Their dad is barely holding on and the threat of child services taking Black looms large. Kauri wo ...Show more
The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LOVE CONNECTS THEM. MUSIC DIVIDES THEM. SECRETS COULD TEAR THEM APART . . .Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, escape this summer with this page-turner about a notorious family which takes you on a journey through the glamour of the 1960s-90s music scenes.___________________________________________ ...Show more
Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here, iconoclast ...Show more
Costanza by Rachel Blackmore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Rome, 1636. History calls her a Muse. Temptress. Fallen woman. This is her story.In the scorched city of Rome, the cobbled streets hum with gossip and sin. Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife - until she meets Gianlorenzo Bernini, the famed sculptor and star of Roman society, whose jet-blac ...Show more
And So I Roar by Abi Dare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Plucky fourteen-year-old Adunni is in Lagos, excited to finally enrol in school. Having escaped her rural village in a desperate bid to seek a better future, she's found refuge with Tia, a kind and brilliant woman on her own troubled journey of self-discovery. But it's not so simple to run away from yo ...Show more
Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Halle Butler is a first-rate satirist of the horror show being sold to us as Modern Femininity. She is Thomas Bernhard in a bad mood, wearing ill-fitting tights, scrutinizing old take-out leftovers' CATHERINE LACEY A breakup. A college town. A group of jealous friends, tipping towards middle age. They ...Show more
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment Sue draws breath, ...Show more
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago V S. Ser.
'Intelligent, witty and stylish' INDEPEDENT 'Everyone's appetites will be satisfied' ELLE MAGAZINE 'Waters is an author to cherish' GUARDIAN Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today. Pierci ...Show more