Good Material by Dolly Alderton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love - a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both. Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he c ...Show more
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Treat yourself to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo, part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics 'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Sm ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Black Swans - Stories by Eve Babitz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." --The New York Times Book Review A new reissue of Babitz's collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s--decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. ...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
The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father's neglect and her mother's sadness, she begi ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
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
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her pers ...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
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for FictionShortlisted for the International Dublin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year The breathtaking new novel from Eimear McBride, about an extraordinary, all ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title is presented with an introduction by Zoe Heller. "The Good Soldier" is a brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful ...Show more