The Bookstore by Deborah Meyler
15.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Love doesn't always go by the book Ardent and Idealistic, Esme Garland has arrived in Manhattan with a scholarship to study art history at Columbia University. When she falls in love with New York blue-blood Mitchell van Leuven, with his penchant for all things erotic, life seems to be clear sailing, un ...Show more
The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The extraordinary narrator of The Banner of the Passing Clouds is born on the day Stalin dies and is given his name - Iosif Dzhugashvili - by a hospital official. He becomes convinced that Stalin, freed from the constraints of an old and finished body, has found a new dwelling place within his chest, be ...Show more
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs. ...Show more
Lick (Stage Dive #1) by Kylie Scott
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Stage Dive
Evelyn Thomas's plans for celebrating her twenty-first birthday in Las Vegas were big. Huge. But she sure never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the black plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man in her room, and a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King ...Show more
The Yellow Dog: Inspector Maigret #5 by Georges Simenon
16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is the fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda Asher's timeless translation. There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quiverin ...Show more
Everland by Rebecca Hunt
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two groups, almost a hundred years apart, find themselves on the same desolate Antarctic island in this tense and compelling novel by Rebecca Hunt. 1913: Dinners, Millet-Bass, and Napps - three men bound not by friendship, but by an intense dependence founded on survival - will be immortalised by their ...Show more
All That is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbours. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, trying to hide her dissident past. In the hospital, a surgeon immerses himself in his work t ...Show more
The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology. This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mi ...Show more
Salt, Sweat, Tears: The Men Who Rowed the Oceans by Adam Rackley
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Salt, Sweat, Tears - The extraordinary story of the men who rowed oceans by Adam Rackley. Fewer people have rowed across the Atlantic than have climbed Everest. Adam Rackley is among them. For 70 days he and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven metres long and two metres wide, in one ...Show more
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a dark and powerful debut novel set in the hardscrabble American heartlands. 'If I knew for a certain'ty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life...' Set in the mountains, valleys and close-knit communities of rural Montana in the ear ...Show more
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter: Dearest Mu, The sun is piercing, old bastard sky. I am feeling empty and bare. Nothing is in my soul, apart from the image of you. I am writing to you from a place I cannot tell you about yet. In a ...Show more
Millennium People by J.G. Ballard
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among th ...Show more