My Friends by Hisham Matar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Return comes an astonishing new novel about friendship, set between London and Libya in the 1980s and the present Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh- two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of re ...Show more
Bird Life: a novel by Anna Smaill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A major modern classic: the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemoia 'Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' - Ali Smith 'A novel to love as well as admire, always playful and ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots and absu ...Show more
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
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
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharptoothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter thepavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's te ...Show more
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.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
The Dyehouse: Text Classics by Mena Calthorpe
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"Written with unerring skill and insight, The Dyehouse is a masterly portrait of postwar Australia,when industrial work was radically transformed by new technologies and society changed with it. Mena Calthorpe:who herself worked in a textile factory:takes us inside this world, vividly bringing to life t ...Show more
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Gol ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín, Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more