Bed-Stuy Is Burning - A Novel by Brian Platzer
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Do the Right Thing meets The Bonfire of the Vanities, in this "thrilling debut novel about marriage, gentrification, parenthood, race, and the dangerous bargains we make with ourselves" (Ann Packer, New York Times bestselling author) set over the course of one cataclysmic day when riots erupt in a rapid ...Show more
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
**The moving novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist - an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing - she is constantly challenging the oppressive regi ...Show more
Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent ...Show more
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* In the Midst of Winter touches upon the plights of undocumented immigrants and refugees, human rights, and love in the third act of life. Delving into the past of the three protagonists, Allende explores hopes, dreams, and the need to have a safe place to call home. During their journey to help Evelyn ...Show more
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Las aventuras picarescas de una Sherezade latinoamericana, relatando su nacimiento ileg timo, su orfandad, su adolescencia sin rumbo, sus actividades contra el gobierno, y su romance con un problem tico director de pel culas documentales. Por medio de su don narrativo, Eva Luna inventa una realidad pers ...Show more
Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The author of the bestselling novel The Party--lauded as "tense and riveting" by New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda--returns with a chilling new domestic drama about two women whose deep friendship is threatened by dark, long-buried secrets.Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat.A st ...Show more
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The critically acclaimed debut about a woman whose dull admin job begins to take over her life - an existential thriller told with warmth and heart.
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Holly Seddon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author, Holly Seddon, has delivered another page-turning and utterly enthralling novel. Sometimes a promise becomes a prison. Fearing eternal singledom, childhood friends Kate and Paul make the age-old vow that if they don't find love by thirty, they will marry each other. Years later, with ...Show more
In The Distance by Hernan Diaz
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, re ...Show more
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A striking, rambunctious, Tom Ripley-ish debut about cuckoos in the family nest, the death of colonial Rhodesia and the bloody birth of corrupt Zimbabwe Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thug ...Show more
The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Yoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of the many aged-elderly in Japan and he might, he thinks, live forever. Life for Yoshiro isn't as simple as it used to be. Pollution and natural disas ...Show more
Days of Awe by A. M. Homes
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties." --Time A razor-sharp story collection from a writer who is always "furiously good" (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time). With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart ...Show more