Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient. The past never remains in the past... London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war.14-year-o ...Show more
Munich by Robert Harris
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place.As Chamberlain?s plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer?s train steams south, two young men ...Show more
Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Moscow Trilogy Ser.
'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire a' Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. H ...Show more
Babylon by Yasmina Reza; Linda Asher (Translator)
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Prix Renaudot Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Elisabeth is a woman whose curiosity and passion far exceed the borders of her quiet middle-class life. She befriends a neighbor, organizes a small dinner party. And then, quite suddenly, finds herself embarked with him on an adventure that i ...Show more
Cain by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is there in time to save Abraham from sacrificing Isaac when God's angel arrives late after a wing malfunction. Written in the last years of Saramago' ...Show more
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. begins an affair with his subject's secretary. Meanwhile the painting starts to fail. For inspiration H. takes a trip to Italy to contemplate the works of the ...Show more
Spoils by Brian Van Reet
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the ground in Baghdad are being beamed to news channels around the world. Nineteen-year-old Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the US army two yea ...Show more
Evening Descends Upon the Hills: Stories from Naples by Anna Maria Ortese; Ann Goldstein
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Classic short stories set in Naples in the 1940s and 50s that inspired Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels
Friends and Traitors by John Lawton
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Troy
London, 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard--newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain--is not looking forward to a European trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod has decided to take his entire family on "the Grand Tour" for his fifty-first birt ...Show more
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Three generations of women from one immigrant family try to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they're building in America. Illuminating the violent political history of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s and the insular immigrant communities that spring up in the suburban United Stat ...Show more
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