The Chalk Artist by Allegra Goodman
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tender affair and the redemptive power of art are at the core of this compelling novel from National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman, "a romantic realist who dazzles with wit and] compassion" (The Wall Street Journal). Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits t ...Show more
Norma by Sofi Oksanen
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The hair-raising mash-up of feminist X-Men, gothic fairy tale, family saga and biting social criticism that is taking Europe by storm.When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, ...Show more
The Lustre of Lost Things by Sophie Chen Keller
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For the first time in my thirteen years, I have a story of my own to tell and I am the one who will tell it. There is only one place in the world that Walter Lavender feels at home: The Lavenders, his mother's unusual New York bakery where meringues scud through displays like clouds, marzipan dragons br ...Show more
Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An electrifying novel of blood ties, online identities, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.At 23, Alice Hare leaves England for New York - the city of her birth, before she was adopted by a British mother and an American father. She falls in love with Manhattan, and becomes fixated ...Show more
The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An American woman wakes up alone in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She doesn't have a map or a compass or any food.How she ended up there, and the tragic events of her past emerges over the course of this slim, gripping novel. We discove ...Show more
The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
The Lady Killer leads a double life in the shadow world of Tokyo's singles bars and nightclubs. By day a devoted husband and hard worker, by night he cruises nightclubs cafes and cinemas in search of lonely single women to seduce.But now the hunter is being hunted, and in his wake lies a trail of grueso ...Show more
The Story of a Marriage by Geir Gulliksen
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Can you tell me about us?'In his struggle to understand what has happened to his family, how his wife could fall in love with another man after twenty happy years, Jon attempts to tell the story of the painful collapse of his marriage, but from her point of view. He tries to get inside her head, to see ...Show more
Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman; Victoria Nelson (Editor, Introduction by)
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described ostrange storieso remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman's superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of na ...Show more
The Young Lion - Birth of the Plantagenets by Blanche d'Alpuget
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Blanche d'Alpuget's critically acclaimed historical fiction quartet Birth of the Plantagenets, set in the court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitane.Geoffrey the Handsome, the virile and charming Duke of Normandy, seduces Queen Eleanor of France to spy for him in the struggle between Normandy and France ...Show more
The Way Things Should be by Bridie Jabour
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A warm and genuine novel about the hopes, expectations, failings and disappointments of millennials.Claudia is getting married in a week. Well, she's 85% sure she is getting married in a week. Maybe 75%... First, she must return home to spend the week with her siblings Zoe, Phinn and Poppy who, despite ...Show more
The Actresses by Barbara Ewing
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
They all met again at the Drama School Reunion: the Hollywood celebrity, the out-of-work soap star, the understudy, the Shakespearian hero, the plodding small part player. Thirty-six years ago the Academy's principal spoke of the great parts awaiting them. What he did not say, was that before they reach ...Show more
Nightwood
14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, B ...Show more