Our Shadows by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A new, smaller format for this sweeping intergenerational novel from 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award winner Gail Jones.Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history ...Show more
The Last Good Man by Thomas McMullan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE' A Scarlet Letter for our times' MARGARET ATWOOD'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel I've read in recent memory' ROB DOYLE Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor in search of his cousin. He has come from the city, wher ...Show more
The Islands by Emily Brugman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A moving and original debut novel. Observant, warm and extraordinary. 'There is an other-worldly quality about the Abrolhos which is beyond the reach of ordinary storytelling. Emily Brugman has captured them, staked them to the page in all their isolation and aridity and scoured indifference, because h ...Show more
Lust by Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
"Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives, a slighted old man takes an elaborate and chilling revenge on his tormentor, a sculpture comes between a scheming wife and her put-upon husband . . . Lust highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, ...Show more
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothe ...Show more
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In this luminous novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first novel, Amy and Isabelle, unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain hi ...Show more
The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till. Nor are her fellow employees any l ...Show more
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Filmed for Sky Atlantic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Patrick Melrose Novels is the complete collection of Edward St Aubyn's award-winning novels of childhood trauma and aristocratic decadence. This Picador Classics edition features an introduction by author Zadie Smith.Patrick slid back down in h ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (translator)
$36.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
Watch Us Dance by Leila Slimani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Watch Us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place and time of The Lost Daughter. The seductive, vibrant new novel from international bestselling author Leila Slimani. Morocco, 1968. As she stan ...Show more
The Postcard by Anne Berest
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society. January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives ...Show more
Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery by Margot Douaihy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. She's committed both to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining Magnolia Riveaux's latest venture, Redemption Detective Age ...Show more