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Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker Prize 2022 for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Cat ...Show more
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes ...Show more
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson, Nichola Smalley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control? A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected. In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their father chooses to reveal his affair. Pandemonium ensue ...Show more
Is Mother Dead? by Vigdis Hjorth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial pain ...Show more
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You'll want to read it over and over again.' - Aravind Adiga, author of The White TigerA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hol ...Show more
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful, compressed masterwork that explores questions of complicity, power and devotion. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - fr ...Show more
The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"French novelist Condé (Waiting for the Waters to Rise)delivers an ingenious bildungsroman of a messianic figure in contemporaryMartinique. Readers will be transfixed." --Publishers Weekly, starred review A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbea ...Show more
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov (translated by Reuben Woolley)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European"A Ukrainian Murakami" GuardianA hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey BeesStrange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air ...Show more
Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experiencegrowing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talkedabout--the sheer ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier ; Daniel Levin Becker (translator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer. Buried deep in rural Fr ...Show more
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce and fantasy. A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named "Girl of Spring". A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a ...Show more