The Return by Roberto Bolano
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolano called 'the secret story', 'the one we'll never know'. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable tales bent on returning to haunt you, most of them appearing in English for the first time here. Wide-ranging, ...Show more
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from Joseph O'Neill, his first since 'Netherland'.
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the compelling and confronting story of a sister who risks her marriage to save her morbidly obese brother. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize ...Show more
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning recreation of the life and times of Oswald of Northumbria: Christian warlord, founder of Lindisfarne monastery, and the first great English monarchOswald Whiteblade lived one of the most influential and colorful lives in early English history. Before his death in battle against the pagans of ...Show more
Hello From the Gillespies by Monica McInerney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For more than thirty years, Angela Gillespie has sent friends and family around the world an end-of-year letter titled 'Hello from the Gillespies'. It's always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herself - she tells the truth ...The Gillespies are far from the perfect family t ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In AmnesiaPeter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over? When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an Amer ...Show more
Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Nayomi Munaweera writes with ferocity, fire and poetry of the incomprehensible madness of civil war and its effects upon those caught within it, whether in the villages and cities of Sri Lanka, or half a world away. A masterful, incendiary debut.' Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander Before civil war ...Show more
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for FictionSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Shreiber and Jaden Smith A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year "A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride." -cover review of "The New York Times ...Show more
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the bestselling Beautiful Ruins comes The Financial Lives of Poets - a brilliantly funny novel about a man who, in an attempt to save himself, may destroy everything he loves. Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his house, his wife, and maybe his sanity too. Financial journal ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A whole Gothic world had come to grief ...' Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an affair with a worthless young socialite. Abandoning the country for ...Show more