Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. L ...Show more
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. Years later, when he marries the strong-willed, beautiful Rebecca, he is secretly hoping to create his own version of that free-thinking family, but after the birth of their first child, ...Show more
Patsy - A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn
$46.95 AUD
Category: Literature
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it's the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years before for the "land of opportunity." Patsy's plans do not include her religious mother or even her young daughter, Tru, both of ...Show more
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of ...Show more
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
$23.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Tras El paciente ingl s, Ondaatje reafirma en Divisadero su extraordinaria capacidad para moverse en el dif cil terreno de los sentimientos y para tratar las pasiones, las p rdidas y la persistencia del pasado. Un relato de inusual intensidad y belleza. En la m s ntima y hermosa de sus historias, Michae ...Show more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Marquez 2014
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the mor ...Show more
Indelicacy by Amina Cain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A ghostly feminist fable, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. In 'a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch' (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures asp ...Show more
Here We Are by Graham Swift
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack ...Show more
The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham, Vivian Pham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Growing up can feel like a death sentence Life in a troubled neighbourhood demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn’t really know. Watching the world from her bedroom window, she exists only in second-hand romance novels and falls for any fast-food employee who happens to spare her a glance. Everyth ...Show more
Book of Echoes by Rosanna AMAKA
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Narrated by the soul of an African slave woman, this is a searing debut novel about hope, redemption and the scars of historyOver two hundred years ago in Africa, a woman tosses her young son to safety as she is hauled away by slavers. After a brutal sea passage, her second child, a newborn baby girl, i ...Show more
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A dazzling debut novel, with echoes of Homegoing and Beloved, that sweeps across eras and generations, bridging the American Civil War, to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing-and the conjuring of curses. Freedomtime, 1867. Rue is a midwife and healer, living with oth ...Show more
The Message by Mai Jia
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A dazzling literary thriller set in Japan-occupied China from the most translated Chinese novelist of our time. ********************************* China, 1941. While war rages in Europe, Japan has established itself as the supreme power in Asia. The beautiful province of Hangzhou has become a stronghold ...Show more