Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories by Douglas (TRN) Emile; Parmée Zola
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of `Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of `Coqueville on the Spree', these stories display t ...Show more
Thoughts by J.g. (TRN) Giacomo; Nichols Leopardi
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti, the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his Zibaldone (Notebooks), Leopardi was also an acute social commentator and a sharp dissector of the human mind. Thoughts - a collection of philosophical and critical observation ...Show more
Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras
17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a caf�, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently an ...Show more
Death Wish (FTI) by Brian Garfield
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Successful New York accountant Paul Benjamin is enjoying a three martini lunch when a gang of drug addicts breaks into his WC home. After finding very little in the way of money, they brutally attack Paul's family, killing his wife and leaving his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken and aware that the pol ...Show more
Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin's powerful new novel is set in Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour - a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Alg ...Show more
Rainsongs by Sue Hubbard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Rainsongs is a novel about memory, faith and love, "a compelling story freighted with heartbreak and loss" (Shena Mackay), and a meditation on the fragile, improbable ways that history, landscape and unlikely intimacies can offer quiet redemption. Newly widowed Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote co ...Show more
Vladimir M. by Robert Littell
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Moscow, March 1953- As Stalin breathes his last, four women meet in Room 408 of the luxurious hotel Metropol. They have gathered to reminisce about the great poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, whose work they once inspired. Following his mysterious suicide twenty-five years earlier, he was canonised by Stalin as ...Show more
The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes an internationally bestselling World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family. 1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissett ...Show more
Varina by Charles Frazier
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the number one bestselling author of Cold Mountain - a stunning portrait of the devastation left by the American Civil War, as seen through the eyes of a woman who played a part at the heart of it. Sooner or later, history asks: which side were you on? 'Riveting...this is a sharp, evo ...Show more
The Two Houses by Fran Cooper
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Superbly written and utterly gripping' Daily Mail After an acclaimed career in ceramics, Jay herself has cracked. Recovering from a breakdown, she and her husband Simon move to the desolate edges of the north of England, where they find and fall in love with the Two Houses: a crumbling property whose c ...Show more
The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Prods at the dark underbelly of society.' Red Best Summer Beach ReadsA Prima Best Summer Read'Compelling story characters readers will recognize and come to love and writing that makes it effortless to turn page after page.' Vancouver SunTHE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE is a page-turning Canadian bestseller abo ...Show more
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The family thought the little house they had made in Elmet, Yorkshire, was theirs, that their peaceful, self-sufficient life was safe. Cathy and Daniel roamed the woods while their father built things and hunted. Sometimes he disappeared to do secret, brutal work for money. Narrated by Daniel after a ca ...Show more