The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
For fans of Toni Morrison, an unforgettably powerful novel about a mother's courage, sacrifice and love, set against the volatile history of twentieth century America. When Hattie clambered from a train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud and the dream of Philadelphia sitting round as a marble in h ...Show more
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World- an adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork.b>b>Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Awardfor Science Fiction Literature.b>b>Joe Spork, son of the infamous criminal Mathe ...Show more
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry: The uplifting and redemptive No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller by Rachel Joyce
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To s ...Show more
Married Love by Tessa Hadley
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiance is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior. We fol ...Show more
Speedboat by Renata Adler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler’s Speedboat charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is ...Show more
The Dark Road by Ma Jian
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"If a panda gets pregnant, the entire nation celebrates. But if a woman gets pregnant she's treated like a criminal. What kind of country is this?" Meili, a young peasant woman is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of the great sage Confucius. They have a daughter, but ...Show more
House of All Nations by Christina Stead
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
House of All Nations is Christina Stead's 1938 gripping portrayal of financial world success. Set in an exclusive European bank in the heady days of the early thirties, Stead weaves a remarkable tale of greedy, devious and shady characters, all brought together by their love of money. The director of th ...Show more
Harland's Half Acre by David Malouf
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A revised edition of this seminal Malouf novel, now with an Afterword from the author. Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers, and his desire to regain the Harlands' lost prosperity. Phil Vernon, growing up alone in the midst of a ...Show more
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in ...Show more
Friday by Michel Tournier; Norman Denny (Translator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Acad mie Fran aise, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame ...Show more
Sun Dog by Monique Roffey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and ...Show more