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
Faded Glory by David Essex
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
First novel by bestselling superstar David Essex. Albert Kemp is a lonely widower, whose only son was killed in the war. Now, in 1953, he is working in a pub under the railway arches. Downstairs is a traditional bar, upstairs is a famous boxing gym. It is here that Albert brings Danny, a fatherless boy ...Show more
The Girl with No Name by Diney Costeloe
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of ...Show more
The Drowning of Arthur Braxton by Caroline Smailes
17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
An urban fairy tale from the acclaimed author of 99 Reasons Why. Arthur Braxton runs away from school. He hides out in an abandoned building, an old Edwardian bathhouse. He discovers a naked woman swimming in the pool. From this point on, nothing will ever be the same. The Drowning of Arthur Braxton is ...Show more
Nicotine by Nell Zink
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the much acclaimed author of MISLAID and THE WALLCREEPER, a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families — both the ones we're born into and the ones we create — a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home. Re ...Show more
The Brother by Joakim Zander
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Smart, gripping and urgent, the new blockbuster from the bestselling author of The Swimmer. Growing up poor, Yasmine vowed she would always protect her little brother from harm. She broke her promise on the day she left home, abandoning Fadi to his life in the Stockholm slums. Now, five years later, Yas ...Show more
The Travelling Companion: For as Long as it Takes to Get There by Ian Rankin
9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For recent college graduate Ronald Hastie, a job at the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop offers the perfect occupation during a summer abroad in Paris. Working part-time in exchange for room and board leaves plenty of freedom to explore the city once visited by his literary hero, Robert Louis ...Show more
The Woman Who Ran by Sam Baker
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Superbly executed, with a creeping sense of dread that builds to an explosive finish' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go 'Disquieting, thought-provoking...keeps twisting and turning as it hurtles towards a hair-raising climax' Guardian How do you escape what you can't remember? She can run. But c ...Show more