A Man Made Entirely of Bats by Patrick Lenton
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A Man Made Entirely of Bats' is a collection of short stories and flash fiction by one of Australia's newest voices. Comedic and absurd, these stories are an entertaining exploration of the concept of super heroes and of the super strange in our world. 'Featuring a colourful assortment of superheroes, ...Show more
Who is Mr Satoshi? by Jonathan Lee
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the day his mother dies reclusive photographer Rob Fossick - forty-one and already in the twilight of his career - finds among her belongings an unexplained package addressed to a 'Mr Satoshi'. So begins a quest that will propel Rob, anxious and unprepared, into the urban maelstrom of Tokyo. With the ...Show more
Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out...but he lay on the ground with his eyes closed'. A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirt ...Show more
Road to Reckoning by Robert Lautner
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A novel that hits right to the heart of fans of Cold Mountain and True Grit. Set in 1837, this is the completely compelling story of 12-year-old orphan Thomas Walker and his treacherous journey home through the wide open lands of America. Still only twelve years old, Tom Walker is convinced he is a man. ...Show more
A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgaard
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What if God exists? What if angels are real? What if we treated religious tracts, including the Bible, as empirical evidence of the supernatural world? Karl Ove Knausgaard's major novel, A Time For Everything, is about God and his angels. It posits that angels are real, and that God exists. It posits, f ...Show more
Boyhood Island (#3 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: very good
'Rare and Ruthless... Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' Guardian Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the ca ...Show more
Dancing in the Dark (#4 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: very good
"The fourth part of the sensational My Struggle series that has been hailed as perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times (Guardian)Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself or in any other job for t ...Show more
A Death in the Family (#1 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Category: Fiction | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: good
"'It's unbelievable... It's completely blown my mind' Zadie Smith /b>arl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpred ...Show more
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Glo ...Show more
The Heat of Betrayal by Douglas Kennedy
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But w ...Show more
White Truffles in Winter by N. M. Kelby
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions - kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry - Escoffier was also torn between tw ...Show more
Island by Alistair MacLeod
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, these stories are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart. Steeped in memory and myth and washed in the brine and blood of the long battle with the land and the sea, they celebrate a passionate engagement wi ...Show more