The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creat ...Show more
Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories by Stuart Dybek
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for rapture and for trust. With fervent intensity and sly wit, he gives each tale his signature mix of characters--some almost ghostly, others vividly real--who live in world ...Show more
Paper Lantern: Love Stories by Stuart Dybek
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love "Ready!""Aim!On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it's cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. ...Show more
Subtly Worded and Other Stories by Nadezhda Teffi
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny - a ...Show more
Frog by Yan Mo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Before the Cultural Revolution, narrator Tadpole's feisty Aunt Gugu is revered as an obstetrician in her home township in rural China. Renowned for her sure hands and uncanny ability to calm anxious mothers, Gugu speeds around town on her bicycle to usher thousands of babies into life. When famine lifts ...Show more
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The New York Times BestsellerLong-listed for the 2014 National Book Award in fictionWinner of the 2015 Alex Award for adult books with special appeal for young adults Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival You may now make your first move. Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the a ...Show more
The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Stella Sweeny is back in Dublin. After living the dream in New York for a year - touring her self-help book, appearing on talk shows all over the USA and living it up in her 10-room duplex on the Upper West Side - she's back to normality with a bang. And she's got writer's block. Stella wants a clean br ...Show more
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis: read it in a sitting; remember it for the rest of your life. "This unforgettable novel squanders no words in its brilliant, deft depictions of love, of memory, of compassion and, ultimately, despite its title, of loyalty". (Edith Pearlman). "Taut, fierce, forensically i ...Show more
These Days Are Ours by Michelle Haimoff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a vivid and irresistible coming-of-age story for the Lena Dunham generation, set in New York and personally recommended to Penguin by bestselling author Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch, About a Boy). New York City, six months after 9/11: everything has changed and nothing has. Hailey graduated college ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: good
New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.' American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and ...Show more
A Month In The Country: Penguin Essentials by J.L. Carr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of ren ...Show more
Grit Lit A Rough South Reader by Franklin, Tom, Carpenter, Brian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction