Secret Lives of Men by Georgia Blain
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION IN THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 KIBBLE LITERARY AWARD In these thirteen short stories, Georgia Blain examines human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires and our shortcomings. The men in these ta ...Show more
The Odd Angry Shot by William Nagle
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. Brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny, it portrays a close-knit group of knockabout SAS fighters: their mateship, homesickness and fears; their practical jokes, drinking and fighting. The enemy is not just the Viet ...Show more
Letters to the End of Love by Yvette Walker
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
With the readability of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the literary grace of Colm Tóibin, this brilliant debut novel satisfies on all levels. Three stories, three secrets, three marriages. In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write le ...Show more
Toby's Room by Pat Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Life Class Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: good
Pat Barker returns to the First World War in "Toby's Room", a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor de ...Show more
Hologram for the King by Eggers Dave
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one ...Show more
Redemption by Jussi Adler-Olsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Department Q Ser.
Two young brothers wake tied up and gagged in a boathouse by the sea. Their bonds are inescapable. But, just perhaps, there is a way to cry for help . . . Years later, in Copenhagen's cold cases division, Detective Inspector Carl Mørck receives a bottle. It holds an old and decayed message, scratched in ...Show more
A Man in Love (My Struggle #2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: My Struggle
Karl Ove Knausgaard leaves his wife and everything he knows in Oslo for a fresh start in Stockholm. There he strikes up a deep and competitive friendship with Geir and pursues Linda, a beautiful poet who captivated him years ago. A Man in Love, the second book of six in the My Struggle cycle, sees Knaus ...Show more
The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A storyteller of refreshing inventiveness and subtlety" "(San Francisco Chronicle), " Jonathan Ames has won critical raves for this delightful "comedy of impeccable manners with a debauched '90s spin" "(Elle)." Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. ...Show more
Man in the Holocene by Frisch Max
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Swiss Literature Ser.
A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man's lonely inner life and the objective facts he finds in the books of his isolated home. As a rainstorm rages outside, Max Frisch's protagonist, Geiser, watches t ...Show more