The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more
Autumn by Ali Smith
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasonal
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is ...Show more
A Woman Loved by Andreï Makine; Geoffrey Strachan (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema. Countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, betrayal, revenge, murder - there is no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg Erdmann, a young Russian filmmaker, seeks to discover and portray the real Catherine, her essential, emotion ...Show more
Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. Here is a tale that will enchant Victoria Hislop's fans - it is inspired by the beauty of her beloved Greece and features ...Show more
Holding by Graham Norton
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal - until now; the beautiful and mysterious family of three spinster sisters each with their own secrets and ...Show more
Echoland by Per Petterson
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents in Denmark. Confused by the underlying tension between his mother and grandmother, Arvid is grappling with his own sense of self. He's on the cusp of becoming a teenager, feeling awkward in his own skin. As Arvid cycles a ...Show more
Transit by Rachel Cusk
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspe ...Show more
Some Rain Must Fall (#5 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: very good
"The International bestsellerAs the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and clichUd, and his social efforts are ...Show more
Divorce is in the Air by Gonzalo Torne
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Joan-Marc's out of work, he's alone, he has a heart condition, his mother's addicted to pills, he can't stand his sister. Otherwise, life is beautiful. And there's a lot that his estranged second wife doesn't know about him. But in Divorce is in the Air he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the fa ...Show more
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new bestseller from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December. "You don't live the life I have without making some enemies."Having accepted a strange but intriguing invitation to a French island, psychiatrist Robert Hendricks meets the man who has commissioned him to write a biography. But ...Show more
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor's office, a bab ...Show more