The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy; Gini Alhadeff (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man name ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
How does Italy actually work? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels ...Show more
Colorful: A Novel by Eto Mori
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beloved and bestselling classic in Japan, this groundbreaking tale of a dead soul who gets a second chance is perfect for readers of The Midnight Library."Congratulations, you've won the lottery!" shouts the angel Prapura to a formless soul. The soul hasn't been kicked out of the cycle of rebirth just ...Show more
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however ...Show more
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. ...Show more
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER 2022 Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie.I had no wa ...Show more
The Constant Rabbit (PB) by Jasper Fforde
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR. THE MOST ORIGINAL BOOK OF 2021'Sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality' The Times***England, 2020.There are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits living in the UK.They can walk, talk and drive cars, the result of an Inexplicable Anthro ...Show more
Small Joys of Real Life by Allee Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her bed, Pat said, 'You can't live your life saying you'll get around to doing something you know will make you happy. You just have to do it.' Eva didn't know how devastating those words would turn out to be. ...Show more
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
**Winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize** The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful prose. Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's ...Show more
The Light Years (#1 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Cazalet Chronicles Ser.
Elegantly constructed and told with exceptional grace, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's extraordinary, bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles.Every summer, the Cazalet brothers - Hugh, Edward and Rupert - retu ...Show more
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For fans of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and David Mitchell, a genre bending, time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you've ever loved. Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of step ...Show more