The Bone People by Keri Hulme
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.
Death Fugue by Sheng Keyi
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Published for the first time in English by Giramondo, Death Fugue is the bold attempt by a prominent Chinese novelist to confront the legacy of protest and suppression which haunts her generation. Sheng Keyi was born in Hunan province in 1973 and lives in Beijing. Death Fugue is her sixth novel, and the ...Show more
Bapo by Nicholas Jose
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nicholas Jose was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1987 to 1990, at a vital moment in China's history, and has played an important role in artistic relations between the two countries since then. The title of his new collection of stories refers to an unusual kind of Chinese ...Show more
Tobermory and Other Stories by Saki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At a country house party Cornelius Appin announces that he has discovered a method by which animals can be taught to speak. His latest pupil is none other than Tobermory, the ginger cat belonging to his hosts, Sir Wilfred and Lady Blemley. As the guests express astonishment and incredulity, Sir Wilfred ...Show more
Rain Over Madrid by Barba, Andres, Dillman, Lecturer in Spanish Lisa (Emory University)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Collected Stories by James Salter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With an introduction by John Banville. From his first published story in the Paris Review in 1968, James Salter's stories have been universally acclaimed. Including his two published collections, Dusk and Other Stories (1988) and Last Night (2005), and the previously uncollected 'Charisma', this volume ...Show more
All That Is by James Salter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his post-war career as a book editor in New York, his trips to the great European cities - for publishing parti ...Show more
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
$18.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise. A Sport and A Pastime established ...Show more
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