What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Like a Kafka story and a Wes Anderson movie combined.' - Literary Hub An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will pre ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film e ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were ...Show more
Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans fro ...Show more
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
She felt their eyes, all those executioners...Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023'The new maestro of dystopian lit has arrived' ...Show more
The Memory Library by Antonia Pont
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After an unspecified disaster, the future is quiet and analogue. Behind a doorway in the old town, a private library service flourishes. Signed up by the inscrutable Charlie, patrons subscribe to a membership they don't fully understand. Retro-tainment, existential eavesdropping, or the future of self-h ...Show more
The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped co ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing - the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island - it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and ...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