Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
33.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
In "Women of the Silk" Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the str ...Show more
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Japan, 1939. Two orphaned brothers are growing up with loving grandparents who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows signs of promise at sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of Noh Theatre masks. But as the ripples of war spread, the ...Show more
Less (HB) by Andrew Sean Greer
49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A Washington Post Top Ten B ...Show more
The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A girl. A boy. His mother. And the lie she'll wish she'd never told. The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances is a gripping and chilling debut psychological thriller, based on the fall-out following an unforgiveable lie. It looks at the potentially charged relationship between girlfriend, boyfriend and his mo ...Show more
I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collect ...Show more
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
51.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, and spends a lot of time thinking abou ...Show more
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly a ...Show more
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in hi ...Show more
Troy: Lord Of The Silver Bow (#1) by David Gemmell
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Troy | Reading Level: good
Three lives will change the destiny of nations. Helikaon, the young prince of Dardania, haunted by a scarred and traumatic childhood. The priestess Andromache, whose fiery spirit and fierce independence threatens the might of kings. And the legendary warrior Argurios, cloaked in loneliness and driven on ...Show more
The Story of Us by Dani Atkins
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A gripping love story from the bestselling author of Fractured. Emma Marshall can't wait to marry her childhood sweetheart, Richard. But then a tragic accident changes everything, and introduces a stranger, Jack, into her life. Gorgeous and mysterious, Jack is like no-one Emma has met before. But Richar ...Show more
Fractured by Dani Atkins
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What would you do if life gave you a second chance? The night of the accident changed everything...Now, five years on, Rachel's life is crumbling. She lives alone in a tiny flat, working in a dead-end job, desperate with guilt over her best friend's death. She would give anything to turn back the clock. ...Show more
The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: European classics
A Russian Army officer fighting in Manchuria in 1904, returns home physically and mentally crippled by the war.