Promising Young Women by Caroline O'Donoghue
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I loved it. The writing is whipsmart and so witty. A fabulous and timely novel.' Marian Keyes 'So brilliant ... Compelling and illuminating ... I highly recommend it.' Dolly Alderton 'A future classic.' Jane Casey Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. ...Show more
Days of Wonder by Keith Stuart
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A story of life, love and hope - the perfect antidote to today's world. Phenomenal' CLARE MACKINTOSH The incredible, life-affirming new novel by the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club Bestseller A Boy Made of Blocks. Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre ...Show more
The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Nour is a young Syrian girl who has lost her father to cancer. Wanting to be close to her relatives, Nour's mother - a cartographer who makes beautiful hand-painted maps - moves her family back to the city of Homs. Nour's father was a real storyteller and he told her that the roots of the trees connect ...Show more
Rock and Roll Is Life: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who Was There by D. J. Taylor
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Taylor's magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loathing of rock's golden age. Beautifully written and consistently funny, it is also a poignant account of one man's search for his own identity' Mail on Sunday 'A da ...Show more
I Want What I Want by Geoff Brown
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I want what I want ... not what other people think I ought to want' Roy Clark insists to all those who attempt to help him: to the psychiatrist at the mental hospital in which he briefly finds himself; to his baffled but affectionate sister, whose clothes he has stolen; to his father, who is appalled t ...Show more
The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Category: Fiction
"All the figures in this book...are irresistible comic manifestations."--The New Yorker This witty and perceptive novel is about Prem, a young teacher in New Delhi who has just become a householder and is finding his responsibilities perplexing.
Dinner at the Centre of the Earth by Nathan Englander
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers' Dave Eggers 'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word' Jonathan Franzen A spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love story . . . Prisoner Z, held at a black site in the Negev desert for a dozen years, has only his guard for c ...Show more
Waiting for Monsieur Bellivier by Britta Rostlund
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Category: Fiction
'Are you waiting for Monsieur Bellivier, madame?' Helena should of course say no. She doesn't know the man talking to her, she doesn't know Monsieur Bellivier, and she certainly isn't waiting for him. But, bored of life, and sparked by a whim, she says yes. Mancebo, a Tunisian shopkeeper, lives a quiet ...Show more
The Verdun Affair by Nick Dybek
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The Verdun Affair is ravishingly beautiful, and as much about love as about war . . . Dybek is a storyteller of great power. If there's any justice, this novel will be widely read and recognized. I absolutely adored it' Paula McLain, bestselling author of THE PARIS WIFE and CIRCLING THE SUN A sweeping ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
Magick of Master Lilly by Tobsha Learner
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1641, the country of England stands divided. London has become a wasps' nest of spies, and under the eyes of the Roundheads those who practice magic are routinely sent to hang. Living in exile in the Surrey countryside is the Master Astrologer and learned magician William Lilly. Since rumours of occ ...Show more
Startup - A Novel by Doree Shafrir
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Category: Fiction
"A biting and astute debut novel with] many delights." --Lara Vapnyar, New York Times Book Review Recommended as a book to read this month by BuzzFeed, Bustle, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Nylon, Town & Country and Lit Hub One of the most anticipated books of 2017--Vulture, BuzzFeed, The Mill ...Show more