Black Swans - Stories by Eve Babitz
42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." --The New York Times Book Review A new reissue of Babitz's collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s--decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. ...Show more
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: An Arthur Less Novel | Reading Level: very good
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on ...Show more
Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley (Translator)
18.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Reportand In Praise of Darknesshe returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, its nightmares and its bloodshed. Many of these stories, such as 'Unworthy' and ...Show more
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: fine
A LibraryReads PickPoornima and Savitha have three strikes against them: they are poor, they are ambitious, and they are girls. When a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away from their village, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known on a harrowing cross-continental journey to find ...Show more
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
`A stunning debut - because there is nothing debut about it'A.M. Homes At 25, Joan Ashby is a literary sensation. Supremely focused, she is determined not to allow anything to distract her: then she surprises herself by falling in love with Martin. They are a perfect match in so many ways, including not ...Show more
Circe (Hardcover) by Madeline Miller
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun an ...Show more
Kindred: The ground-breaking masterpiece by Octavia E. Butler
22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. With an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò. In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first ...Show more
Coonardoo by Katherine Prichard
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
A tough, uncompromising novel about the difficult love between a white man and a black woman. Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo a ...Show more
Oddfellows by Nicholas Shakespeare
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and seven wounded. It was the annual picnic day in Broken Hill and a thousand citizens were dressed for fun w ...Show more
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged FictionOne morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never comes home. Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It's the story of how a b ...Show more
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itse ...Show more