Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father. Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his r ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: HS
Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these trouble ...Show more
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
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
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$9.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Bloomsbury Classics Ser.
"Hana, the Canadian nurse exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; Caravaggio, the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upsta ...Show more
No Small Shame by Christine BELL
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In the aftermath of WWI, a young immigrant is forced to choose between her obligation to the shell-shocked husband who abandoned her, and her right to choose her own path.
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
At thirty-six, Joan knows more than most of the price of pleasure, the quotidian horror of being a woman at the mercy of a man. She knows men, too - their penchant for cruelty, the violence she has absorbed over decades that now threatens to burst from her own hands. Reeling from the public suicide of ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature
Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends ...Show more
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
This is a Pre-read / used book. Good condition. "In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woma ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Genuinely thought-provoking' THE TIMES 'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD 'Faulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer' GUARDIAN A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING Tech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clini ...Show more
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller
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Category: Literature
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, is a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose. 'A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts' - Independent on Sunday One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious ma ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid sce ...Show more
The Wonder: Netflix Tie-In by Emma Donoghue
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Category: Literature
A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish TimesEleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nu ...Show more