The Age of Magic by Ben Okri
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
'The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.' Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two ni ...Show more
The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"I was born with a white spot, or what others call a birthmark, on the cornea of my right eye. That spot would have been entirely insignificant if it hadn't been right in the center of my iris." So begins Guadalupe Nettel's exquisite novel based on her memories of growing up in Mexico in the seventies, ...Show more
Reckless by William Nicholson
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1945. The Second World War has gone on too long. Shops are closed 'for the duration'. Trains run a restricted service 'for the duration'. Life has paused, for the duration. A little girl, Pamela, is growing up fast. A young Englishman, Rupert Blundell, vows there'll be no more wars. Both are waiting for ...Show more
The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri Murari
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When an infamous Taliban government Minister decrees that a cricket team is to be formed, the ludicrous idea finds a champion in a young woman fated to be his reluctant bride. A hugely satisfying and heartwarming story of resilience, love and courage.
The Fires of Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irene Nemirovsky's life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Francaise, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare ...Show more
Topics About Which I Know Nothing by Patrick Ness
20.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Scintillating, surprising, inventive fiction from one of the most talented young writers in Britain - this is a superb collection of new short stories from the acclaimed author of The Crash of Hennington. Have you heard the urban myth about Jesus's double-jointed elbows yet? 100 per cent true. Or seen t ...Show more
The Crash of Hennington by Patrick Ness
20.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and new novel 'More Than This'. Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the award-winning author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, 'A Monster Calls' and and new n ...Show more
Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a new edition of a classic war novel, a brilliant and bitter picture of human conflict. First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest ...Show more
You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out. Robert James, wealthy and in ...Show more
Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus
39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From one of the most innovative and vital writers of his generation, an extraordinary collection of stories that showcases his gifts--and his range--as never before. In the hilarious, lacerating "I Can Say Many Nice Things," a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on ...Show more
Black Venus by James MacManus
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Beautifully capturing bohemian Paris in the late nineteenth century ... MacManus ... creates a gritty and engrossing world in this beautifully crafted narrative, which will leave readers swooning - and reaching for their favourite recording of La Boheme' Booklist (starred review)Black Venus captures th ...Show more
Natural Histories: Guadalupe Nettel by Guadalupe Nettel
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desir ...Show more