Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhe ...Show more
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Like a Kafka story and a Wes Anderson movie combined.' - Literary Hub An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will pre ...Show more
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for FictionShortlisted for the International Dublin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year The breathtaking new novel from Eimear McBride, about an extraordinary, all ...Show more
Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep' NEW YORK TIMES 'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian 'Begs to be read' Spectator 'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Pa ...Show more
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie historical mystery about desire, memory and madness Audacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a darkly erotic tale of a town gripped by madness, envy like poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes. Elodie is the baker's wife- p ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
A Cage in Search of a Bird by Florence Noiville; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better--a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends--until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently helped find a job at the same television station: "My ph ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria stea ...Show more