Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
$34.95 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neigh ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismember ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister's death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics by J. M. Coetzee
$14.95 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics
"She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing." An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irreverent young woman he hires to type his notes. Anya's boyfriend sc ...Show more
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Amanda Lohrey
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating ...Show more
Unsettled Ground: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 by Claire Fuller
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracksTwins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and ...Show more
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
$19.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the hear ...Show more
The Strays by Emily Bitto
$19.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
In The Strays, Evan Trentham is the wild child of the Melbourne art world of the 1930s. He and his captivating wife, Helena, attempt to carve out their own small niche, to escape the stifling conservatism they see around them, by gathering together other like-minded artists. They create a utopian circle ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the ...Show more
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: science fiction fantasy
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
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fat ...Show more