Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and The Vance Palmer Prize..They were showing the savages on the rooftop--that was the word at the kerbstone... Set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific, Bright and Distant Shores is both a sweeping epic and a triu ...Show more
The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016...How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?..Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parent ...Show more
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of t ...Show more
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows that it is time to leave. As he travels towards Lagos, he becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a better life. Their arrival in the city coincides with the eruption of a political sc ...Show more
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Imagine if your whole life changed in the blink of an eye...Captain Tom Barnes is leading British troops into a war zone when he is gravely injured by an exploding IED. This devastating moment and the transformative months that follow are narrated here by forty-five objects, telling one unforgettable st ...Show more
Don't Tell Me You're Afraid by Giuseppe Catozzella; Anne Milano Appel (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach." Eight-year-ol ...Show more
The Courtesan: A Heartbreaking Historical Epic of Loss, Loyalty and Love by Alexandra Curry
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A sweeping historical epic of a young Chinese woman in imperial Europe - perfect for fans of Memoirs of a Geisha The year is 1881, the era of China's humiliation at the hands of imperialist Europe. Seven-year-old Sai Jinhua is left alone and unprotected, her life transformed after her mandarin father's ...Show more
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to ...Show more
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH A masterpiece ' Zadie Smith Extraordinary ' Daily Mail Breathtaking ' Observe rA tour de force ' The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, abou ...Show more
The House at Bishopsgate by Katie Hickman
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1611. James I has recently succeeded to the throne and the Elizabethan age is over. A new artistic and intellectual Renaissance comes to England. As trade routes open up, a rich and cosmopolitan middle class emerges, with an interest in architecture, gardens and textiles. Seven years after he was all bu ...Show more
The Horseman by Tim Pears
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\West Country Trilogy Ser.
From the prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful, hypnotic pastoral novel reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, about an unexpected friendship between two children, set in Devon in 1911 1911. In a forgotten valley, on the Devon-Somerset border, the seasons unfold. Twelve-year-old ...Show more
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram and returning home wet, muddy and dishevelled. Their ...Show more