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Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead. In the wake of t ...Show more
The Fogging by Luke Horton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling tale of the slow disintegration of a relationship and the unravelling of a man. Tom and Clara are two struggling academics in their mid-thirties, who decide to take their first holiday in ten years. On the flight over to Indonesia, Tom experiences a debilitating panic attack, something he h ...Show more
The Death of Noah Glass ( Winner 2019 PM Literary award fiction) (PB) by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father''s ...Show more
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the c ...Show more
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC | Reading Level: good
Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in o ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cel ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tric ...Show more
Possession by A.S. Byatt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tr ...Show more
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