The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky by Franz Kafka (translated by Susan Bernofsky)
15.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains, a century later, one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of travelling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into ...Show more
The Interpreter by Diego Marani
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After the acclaimed New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs, The Interpreter is the third in a trilogy of novels on the theme of language and identity. The Interpreter is both a quest, a thriller, and at times a comic picaresque caper around Europe, while also exploring profound issues of exis ...Show more
Man Tiger - A Novel by Eka Kurniawan
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"After half a century," writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson, "Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor." Eka Kurniawan has been described as the "brightest meteorite" in Indonesia's new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty, elegance, cosmopolitani ...Show more
Coming through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversation ...Show more
Not Working by Lisa Owens
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Claire Flannery has quit her job in order to discover her true vocation - only to realize she has no idea how to go about finding it. Whilst everyone around her seems to have their lives entirely under control, Claire finds herself sinking under pressure and wondering where her own fell apart. 'It's fin ...Show more
The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Missing a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes. All information to M. and Mme Bruder, 41 Boulevard Ornano, Paris.' The author chanced upon this notice in a December 1941 issue of Paris ...Show more
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
Landscape with Landscape by Gerald Murnane
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The titles of this collection of six loosely connected stories, Landscape with Freckled Woman, Sipping the Essence, The Battle of Acosta Nu, A Quieter Place than Clun, Charlie Alcock's Cock, and Landscape with Artist suggest the range of he writer's vision. Some of the stories here have elements of surr ...Show more
Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to co ...Show more
The Lightning Tree by Emily Woof
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a story of two young people who fall in love - and then life gets in the way. Ursula is part dreamer, part radical in the making. Raised in a matriarchal household by a CND-loving activist, she is impatient to begin a life of adventure. But this is Newcastle in the mid-80s where girls are gettin ...Show more
A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, âe~Juiceâe(tm) Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane âe~Bawbagâe(tm)? Can ...Show more
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college-aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, ...Show more