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
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Like its noteworthy ancestors (Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick) Life of Pi is a tale of disaster at sea. Both a boys' own adventure (for grown-ups) and a meditation on faith and the value of religious metaphor, it was one of the most extraordinary and original nove ...Show more
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony's vengeful rival, Octa ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Wolf Hall Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. ...Show more
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Marian Sutro Ser.
From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize-shortlisted The Glass Room and Trapeze An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalt ...Show more