Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The humour, at times can leave you gasping ...comic brilliance' Sunday Times Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened. Sadly, Kugel's life isn't that simple. His fami ...Show more
Harvest by Jim Crace
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders and puts up a make-shift camp. That same night, the local manor house is set on fire. Over the course of sev ...Show more
Benediction by Kent Haruf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Benediction, Haruf writes of the precious ordinary. In this case it's the ordinary life of Dad Lewis, long-time resident of Holt, Colorado, who is now dying of cancer. He has months to live and in those last few months the people who love him gather around him. As the novel unfolds we are introduced ...Show more
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The epitome of East Coast glamour, Tiger House is where the beautiful and the damned have always come to play in summer, scene of martinis and moonlit conspiracies, and newly inherited by the sleek, beguiling Nick. The Second World War is just ending, Nick's cousin Helena has left her in search of marri ...Show more
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were s ...Show more
Philida by Andre Brink
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling P ...Show more
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new international bestseller from Anne Tyler: A story about two ordinary people so intertwined they cannot be separated - even by death ... When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didn't notice. The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun ...Show more
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the city transforms itself over three decades. In Old Bombay, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. But in Rashid's opium room on Shuklaji Street, the air is thick with v ...Show more
Secrecy by Rupert Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is Florence, 1691. The Renaissance is long gone, and the city is a dark, repressive place, where everything is forbidden and anything is possible. The Enlightenment may be just around the corner, but knowledge is still the property of the few, and they guard it fiercely. Art, sex and power - these, a ...Show more
Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One starless night Janie's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up in a political storm which brought starvation to millions, tore families apart ...Show more
The Last Girlfriend on Earth by Simon Rich
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It doesn't matter if you're a robot, a caveman, or an alien from outer space: sooner or later, some girl's going to break your heart. And Simon Rich is going to write about it. Love is really, really difficult. And it's even harder if you're the last woman on earth. The sketches in Simon Rich's new book ...Show more
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is a mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer. Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage g ...Show more