The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The four Flattery sisters - Olwen, Nell, Maeve and Rhona - were left to cobble together their own makeshift adolescence after the death of both their parents. Decades later, all four of them have found success in their respective fields, all of them boasting PhDs and, in Nell's case, a healthy clutch o ...Show more
A Single Thread (PB) by Tracy Chevalier
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'Bittersweet ... dazzling' Guardian 'Deeply pleasurable ... the ending made me cry' The Times 'Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity' Penelope Lively Violet is 39. She lost her fiancé in the Great War. She is consider ...Show more
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The ...Show more
The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1828, two young women were torn apart as they were sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay. Will they ever meet again?Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman - Mary Tyrell - is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected m ...Show more
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack by H. M. Naqvi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Through the use of a roman-à-clef, the author is able to create compelling caricatures that take on a life of their own. - Guardian ____________ Anarchic, erudite and rollicking, with a septuagenarian protagonist like no other, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack is a joyride of a story set agai ...Show more
All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman (Univ. of Georgia)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of the saddest, funniest, strangest, and most romantic books. . . . Brilliant!""The Bookselle"r (UK)All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, Perf is hypnotized by her ex-boyfriend, Hypno, to believe Tom is invisible. Nothing he ...Show more
Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
An immeasurably influential female voice in post-war Japanese literature, Kono writes with a strange and disorienting beauty: her tales are marked by disquieting scenes, her characters all teetering on the brink of self-destruction. In the famous title story, the protagonist loathes young girls but comp ...Show more
Secrets My Father Kept by Rachel Givney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Secrets My Father Kept is a captivating novel about love, sacrifice, secrets and resilience, as the clock inexorably ticks down to a devastating world war.It's February 1939. As the F hrer edges towards an invasion of Poland, total war looms in Europe. However in Krakow, seventeen-year-old Marie Karska' ...Show more
The Covered Wife by Lisa Emanuel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
I think I have been here like this still, but awake; quiet, but wound tight as a spring shoved into a box since I lay down, not long after dark. But I must have slept, slept then woken, shifted from blessed nothingness to tortured waiting. Sarah is a smart, young lawyer working endless hours when she fa ...Show more
The Mystery Woman by Belinda Alexandra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
She had thought Shipwreck Bay was simply a remote town where people were bored senseless with their little lives. Now she saw its virtuous facade hid something darker, more sinister. Rebecca Wood is ready for a quiet life as the new postmistress of a sleepy seaside town. Fleeing a scandal and haunted by ...Show more
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows The Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of ...Show more
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms, and the little moments that make up the life of one man. This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys ...Show more