The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2024 Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024 Sydney Morning Herald Best R ...Show more
Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
P B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls' pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a por ...Show more
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two. Jena Lin plays the violin. She was once a child prodigy and now uses sex to fill the void left by fame. She's struggling a little. Her professional life comprises rehearsals, concerts, auditions and r ...Show more
Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful and important novel with a crucial and timely feminist message, from the Stella Prize-shortlisted author of Little Gods. She tells me to sit down, says that she has something I need to hear and it's that they don't cut hair or set curls. Well they do sometimes, but not always, she says. She ...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 fr ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author . On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from ...Show more
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The best-known book by Cuba's most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura A Penguin Classic Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his c ...Show more
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love'If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did' - GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow'Funny, nostalgic, sexy' MONICA HEISEY, author of Really Good, Actually' ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Eventful, atmospheric, deliciously complex' New York Times 'Elegant and highly accomplished . . . dangerously readable . . . If only all novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature' The Guardian'A literary potboiler about love, obsession, professional rivalry between intimates and ...Show more
The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. In the Edo Period, a samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen. In upstate New York, a formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in ...Show more
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bolano: "his generation's premier Latin-American writer" ("The New York Times"). A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, "Nazi Literature in the Americas" ...Show more