In the Land of the Living by Austin Ratner
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING "made me laugh out loud, and it also left me deeply moved."--John Burnham Schwartz, author of "Reservation Road" and "Northwest Corner" Isidore is a brilliant man, driven in equal measure by grief at his young mother's death, rage at his distant, abusive father, and his own fi ...Show more
Wide Open - DUBLIN IMPAC WINNER 2000 by Nicola Barker
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WIDE OPEN is set on the strange Isle Of Sheppey, which pokes out into into the estuary of the River Thames. On this forgotten misty island there is a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bare, but the characters are brimming with life. There's Luke, who sp ...Show more
The Three Button Trick and Other Stories by Nicola Barker
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Audacious, original, clever, poignant -- these are just a few words that describe the writing of Nicola Barker, a talented, award-winning author whose work brings to mind Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, and Maragaret Atwood. Now nineteen of her finest short stories have been complied into one brilliant, del ...Show more
Loss of Innocence by Richard North Patterson
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
June, 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane - spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha's Vineyard - life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter ...Show more
Wild Things by Brigid Delaney
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A controversial novel of power, prestige and pack mentality exposes the dark underbelly of college life at a prominent university. St Anton's university college is a cradle for privileged young men and women. With its Elysian lush green lawns and buildings of golden sandstone, it seems like a place wher ...Show more
The Way Back Home by Freya North
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One summer, something happened that changed everything forever...We were who we were, the children of Windward - a little ragtaggle tribe defining the ethos and eccentricity of the place...Born and brought up in an artists' commune in Derbyshire, Oriana Taylor had freedom at her fingertips in a home ful ...Show more
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itselfParis in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, wh ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time ...Show more
The Iron Tracks by Aron Appelfeld
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind? Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, "The Iron Tracks" is a riveting tale of survival and revenge by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of th ...Show more
The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
'In The Orchard [Modjeska] further develops her distinctive style, weaving fact with fiction, the essay with a flowing fictional narrative, and stories within stories... Modjeska is accessible and entertaining, a good story-teller... Love, adultery, marriage, and domination; sight, the fear of blindness ...Show more
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's most personal novel - and arguably his most iconoclas ...Show more