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
Host City by David Owen Kelly
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Darlinghurst, Sydney: these are the days of strange rumours. Talk you can catch the gay plague from kissing, or from a mosquito bite. Talk of the government building a wall around ‘Darlo' to keep the plague contained. Talk of old quarantine stations around Australia being reopened, of the army being use ...Show more
The Story Thief by Kyra Geddes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An elegant blend of fact and fiction, The Story Thief is a stirring drama set against pivotal moments in Australian history, about a young woman who discovers her family's story has been appropriated by Henry Lawson for his famous tale, The Drover's Wife. 'Brimming with evocative, authentic detail, The ...Show more
Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Dive into Tom Lake this Christmas - the breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett * THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 * * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK * * A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *'Filled with th ...Show more
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY 'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity' RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exce ...Show more
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Finalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation Winner of the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature "A quirky, compulsively readable book that deftly hints at the emptiness and sadness at its core."--New York Times A finalist for both the Strega Europeo and Gregor von Rezzori awards (and w ...Show more
Strangers at the Port (Miles Franklin 2024 longlist) by Lauren Aimee Curtis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original' LUCIE ELVEN 'I loved Strangers at the Port. It is deliciously spare, yet complex - a story of the past as well as a vision of the future' SARA BAUMEGiulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic ar ...Show more
Shanghailanders by Juli Min
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The stylish, kaleidoscopic debut novel about sisterhood, love and Shanghai, from the Editor-in-Chief of The Shanghai Literary Review. Moving backwards in time from 2040 to 2014, Shanghailanders beautifully unfurls the story of the Yang family against the background of an ever-evolving Shanghai. Rotatin ...Show more
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun Li June ...Show more
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stirring novel of idealist loyalty and sibling love, by one of East Germany's most important writers The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build an egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a pl ...Show more
Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work. Ghost Cities - inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China - follows multiple narratives, including one in whi ...Show more
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helen ...Show more