The King's Mother by Annie Garthwaite
36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF CECILY 'Elegant and propulsive . . . I had to fight myself to put it down' A.K. Blakemore 'History at its most powerful: intimate and personal, visceral and devastating' Jennifer Saint'Family dynamics at their most fierce - timeless and brilliant!' Kate Sawyer --- ...Show more
The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst by Katie Lumsden
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
**PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL FROM KATIE LUMSDEN NOW** 'Romance and scandal abound in this compelling period drama . . . Recommended for all lovers of Regency historical fiction' LAURA SHEPPERSON, author of The Heroines 'Warm and witty, with a wonderful cast of quirky characters whose company I found irres ...Show more
Twitchers by Malcolm Sutton
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Richard's campaign for dog food is trolled with hostile memes, he wants to celebrate. For three months, the London adman's been pushing increasingly risky themes in an effort to get sacked without losing his career-minded girlfriend. He's at the mercy of his 'piranhas', OCD symptoms born of an over ...Show more
A Person Is a Prayer by Ammar Kalia
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happines ...Show more
One Hour of Fervour by Muriel Barbery
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT 2022 From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes the story of one man’s promise to keep a secret that may hold him from the greatest joy possible. Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, appreciates beauty, harmony, balance, and good sake. A few mon ...Show more
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (TV tie-in) by Susanna Clarke
21.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
NOW A MAJOR SEVEN-PART BBC TV SERIES. Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me ...The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But schola ...Show more
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence tha ...Show more
Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
39.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there.To begi ...Show more
Wandering Stars by Sholom Aleichem
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
In a small shtetl in Bessarabia in the early twentieth century, a traveling Yiddish acting company comes to town. The townspeople react in unison: 'What is this? Actor-types? Comedians? Who needs them'? But for Reisel, daughter of a poor cantor, and Leibel, son of a rich man, the theatre is magic, and t ...Show more
The Wayward Moon by Janice Weizman
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The year is 854. Rahel, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, is preparing to meet her fianc for the first time. She cannot know that even as she stands observing herself in the mirror, an enemy of her father is making his way to her house. In mere minutes, she will have to flee, leaving behind her fianc, her home ...Show more
Travelling Cat Chronicles (HB) by Hiro Arikawa; Philip Gabriel (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning hardback edition of this word-of-mouth hit - perfect for gifting. RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF INTERNATIONAL READERS - the tender feel-good story of a man's journey around Japan with a street cat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. INCLUDES 6 EXQUSITE LINE-DRAWINGS. A WATE ...Show more
The Rosie Result (C-format) by Graeme Simsion
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Don Tillman Ser. | Reading Level: very good
I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began...' Don and Rosie are back in Melbourne after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school- his teachers say he isn't fitting in with the other kids. Meanwhi ...Show more