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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 his profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach was the sanest and kindest of them all, the irreplaceable one they couldn't afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. Late in the Dayexplores the tangled webs at the centre of our most intimate relationships, to expose how beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives lie infinite alternate configurations. 'A fine-grained novel of friendship, loss and jealousy' Sunday Times, *100 Great 21-Century Novels* ...Show more

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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 asn't had in a long time, which he keeps hidden from Clara. At the resort, they meet Madeleine, a charismatic French woman, her Australian partner, Jeremy, and five-year-old son, Ollie, and the two couples strike up an easy friendship. The holiday starts to look up, even to Tom, who is struggling to get out of his own head. But when Clara and Madeleine become trapped in the maze-like grounds of the hotel during 'the fogging' -- a routine spraying of pesticide -- the dynamics suddenly shift between Tom and Clara, and the atmosphere of the holiday darkens. Told with equal parts compassion and irony, and brimming with observations that charm, illuminate, and devastate, The Fogging dives deep into what it means to be strong when your foundation is built on sand. ...Show more

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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 death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating. None of it makes any sense. Martin sets off to Palermo in search of answers about his father''s activities, while Evie moves into Noah''s apartment, waiting to learn where her life might take her. Retracing their father''s steps in their own way, neither of his children can see the path ahead. Gail Jones''s mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, and explores the overlapping patterns that life makes. The Death of Noah Glassis about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time. The author of seven novels and two collections of stories, Gail Jonesis one of Australia''s most celebrated writers. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, awarded several prizes in Australia. Internationally her fiction has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. She lives in Glebe, NSW. ''Told masterfully from the perspective of three finely drawn characters, The Death of Noah Glasscombines an enjoyable escapade involving art theft, mafia conspiracy, romance and a suspicious death with a literary exploration of grief, identity and the power of the past to damage present lives. Fans of Jones will not be disappointed, and new readers should find much to recommend it.'' Books+Publishing ''The Death of Noah Glass is a transportive novel, dreamy and evocative, and full of richly-drawn characters. It''s sure to send first-time readers of Gail Jones on a journey through her extensive back catalogue.'' Culturefly ''Jones is one of our greatest writers--for her enormous wisdom and insight as well as the shimmering intensity of her descriptive language.'' West Australian ''An oblique and poetic novel... a vivid, unsettling study of mortality.'' Sunday Times ''The Death of Noah Glassis among (Jones''s) finest work and I expect it will be among this year''s outstanding novels.'' Australian ''...Swooningly lyrical, carrying the reader along in the wake of its beauty.'' Australian Book Review ''This polished, pensive novel that swirls so much about, tantalising with implications amid the patterned intricacy of linked scenes, returning symbols and motifs. It''s a book that needs to be read closely...It''s a book about ways of seeing and about the gaps that persist between vision and understanding. And in the end this novel--which is dedicated to the memory of Jones''s father--is also about patrimony as the pattern and measure that fathers leave behind them.'' Saturday Paper ''Beautifully lit...Jones'' writing demands that the read slow down in order to enjoy every word. Martin is an artist, but then again so is the author, and she too notices hue, texture and nuance.'' Big Issue ''In poetic prose that calls for slower reading to fully appreciate its metaphoric meaning, the narrative, as the mystery is untangled, explores the effects of grief and loss and the theme of time. You could re-read this book for the pleasure and stimulation of the language alone.'' Good Reading ''Jones displays a formidable, eclectic knowledge that she distributes among her characters...an intellectually strenuous entertainment concerned with the nature and loss of senses, of filial obligations and their cost, of the vertiginous role of chance. Jones has challenged herself - and her readers - in another rich and accomplished work.'' Sydney Morning Herald ...Show more

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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 ompany of her wolfdog, Girl - unconcerned by the world outside, or perhaps avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following her granddaughter, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will fight to save her as fiercely as her name suggests... A richly imagined and mythic parable of home and kin that cements Lucy Treloar's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists. PRAISE FOR LUCY TRELOAR'A capacious talent' The Australian 'Deeply moving' The Age'This lovely, atmospheric book sings of the inherent human drama, rising fragility of home-country and the recurrent need to flee and to protect. The journey told in this book is so evocative it will stay with the reader as an important literary fable of our period of history, in which a fraught world threatens all of us with flight, exile and bewilderment.' Tom Keneally 'A work that is more than powerful: it's transformative.' Australian Book Review ...Show more

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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 ther people's lives - especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the rocks. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially as Mildred, teetering on the edge of spinsterhood, has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest and most touching. ...Show more

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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 ebrated evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House - within its walls can be heard ever more distinct echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across Europe." ...Show more

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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 ky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. ...Show more

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Possession by A.S. Byatt

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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 agedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. ...Show more

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