The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: JK
"His first novel is a revelation ...the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ...wonderful". ("The Times"). "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and b ...Show more
Carry the One (POD) by Carol Anshaw
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For fans of the film "The Big Chill", Anne Tyler's Dinner at Homesick Restaurant and Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved, in her fourth novel, Carry the One, Carol Anshaw explores the after effects of one night's terrible trauma on three siblings over 25 years. In the early hours of the morning, following a we ...Show more
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
$21.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
New York Times Bestseller "Timeless and vast... The raw beauty of Ms. Groff's prose is one of the best things about "Arcadia." But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor." --Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "Even the most incidental details vibrate with life "Arcadia" wends a harrowing pa ...Show more
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel by Mo Yan
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Category: Fiction
Today's most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero-or antihero-of Mo Yan's novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness and benevolence t ...Show more
The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Indonesian record-breaking bestseller, in the tradition of Slumdog Millionaire and Shantaram. Ikal is a student at Muhammadiyah Elementary, on the Indonesian island of Belitong, where graduating from sixth grade is considered a major achievement. His school is under constant threat of closure. In fa ...Show more
The Cartographer (Prize winner Indie s/l 2013) by Peter Twohig
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Category: Fiction
An amazingly bold, inventive and enchanting debut. Set in the 1950s, a 10-year-old boy witnesses a murder when he is spying through a window of a strange house. In the following weeks he comes to map out all the significant adventures he has in the labyrinthine city trying to make sure he doesn't cross ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
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Category: Fiction
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into t ...Show more
Highways to a War: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1996 by Christopher Koch
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Category: Fiction
When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him, which is at the heart of this novel, explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate.
The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar
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Category: Fiction
Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household, just outside Los Angeles. One morning, she wakes to an empty house - except for the two sons, little aliens she's never had to interact with before. Not knowing what else to do, she decides to track down their grandfather. It will be an adve ...Show more
Four Bare Legs in Bed by Helen Simpson
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Category: Fiction
Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies. By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawt ...Show more
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
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Category: Fiction
Touring Paris and provincial France in a handsome borrowed car, Philip Dean, Yale dropout, has an affair with a young French woman named Anne-Marie. Their liaison is imagined with candour and sensitivity by an unnamed narrator, whose fantasies become compellingly and hauntingly real. A Sport and A Pasti ...Show more