Newcomers by Michael Biggins
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In sparse prose, Lojze Kovacic chronicles the refugee experience, drawing extensively on the specificities of his own flight from Switzerland for Slovakia, but ultimately transcending the prosaic to meditate on the universal experience of unsettlement. This, the first volume of a three-part semi-autobio ...Show more
The Picturegoers by David Lodge
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picture goers who touch and shape each other's destinies. Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality ...Show more
The Four Books by Yan Lianke
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists." (Guardian). In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. ...Show more
The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a tiny island off the coast of Italy, Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, thinks he has found a place where, finally, he can belong. Intrigued by a building the locals believe to be cursed, Amedeo restores the crumbling walls, replaces sagging doors and sweeps floors before proudly opening th ...Show more
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Where love is your only escape...1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet, it is a dance ...Show more
Castle of Dreams by Elise McCune
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Growing up together in a mysterious castle in northern Queensland, Rose and Vivien Blake are very close sisters. But during the Second World War their relationship becomes strained when they each fall in love with the same dashing but enigmatic American soldier...Rose's daughter, Linda, has long sensed ...Show more
The Exclusives: A Heartbreaking Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Rebecca Thornton
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A heartbreaking story of friendship and betrayal - can we ever forgive the ones we love the most? 'Prep meets The Secret History meets Mean Girls - a stunning debut novel' Esther Walker, author of The Bad Mother 1996. Freya Seymour and Josephine Grey are invincible - beautiful and brilliant, the two b ...Show more
In the Night of Time by Antonio Munoz Molina
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled ...Show more
The Kindness by Polly Samson
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Julia is married and eight years his senior; Julian is a gifted English student, a life of academia ahead. Ignoring warnings from family and friends they each give up all they have to be together. Their new life in London offers immense happiness, especially after their longed-for daughter Mira is born. ...Show more
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. 'You and I are family. Blood and treasure. Listen to me, I created this world with my own two ha ...Show more
The Last of Us by Rob Ewing
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a pandemic wipes out the entire population of a remote Scottish island, only a small group of children survive. How will they fend for themselves? The island is quiet now. On a remote Scottish island, six children are the only ones left. Since the Last Adult died, sensible Elizabeth has been the gr ...Show more