Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Winner - Man Booker International 2019! Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated ...Show more
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic - from the author of 'Wonder Boys'. One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: society culture gender
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the "hush-hush floor" of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at so ...Show more
Milkman by Anna Burns
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes "interesting," the ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, and shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize, The Life to Come is a powerful novel that effortlessly blends sharp satire of the literary world with deeply compassionate portraits of lonely people and their strategies for survival.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
$29.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Dus ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: An Arthur Less Novel
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on ...Show more
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. Midwinter in the ea ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
This Patrick White masterpieceHurtle Duffield, a painter, is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision- his sister's deformity, a ...Show more
Dark Palace (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Edith Trilogy
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early Grand Dayshas been eroded by a sense foreboding as the world moves ever closer t ...Show more