The End of the Day by Claire North
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'WHOLLY ORIGINAL AND HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL' Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie.Charlie meets everyone - but only once. Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. Either way, this is going to be the most important meeting of your life.The End of ...Show more
Now Let's Dance by Karine Lambert
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marguerite had been living a comfortable but dull existence in a suburban town with her straitlaced lawyer husband. When he dies, she realises that life has passed her by. Marcel had been in a loving relationship with Nora since they left Algeria sixty years before. Now that he has lost her, he has los ...Show more
Dinner at the Centre of the Earth by Nathan Englander
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Dinner at the Centre of the Earth follows Prisoner Z, who has been held at a black site in the Israeli desert for twelve years, with only his guard for company. When Z's mission went catastrophically wrong, leading to widespread death in Gaza, he began to re-evaluate his loyalties From Paris and Berlin ...Show more
The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA #1 International BestsellerA young lawyer became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and destructive relationship. An artist, his subject, and her husband became a triangle that drew the lawyer in deeper and deeper. Now, encountering the paint ...Show more
Today Will be Different by Maria Semple
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* Instant New York Times Bestseller *Named a Notable Book of 2016 by the Washington Post, one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of the Year, one of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books, one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016, one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, a Must-Read Book of 2016 by PopSugar, one ...Show more
Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece by Daniel Keyes
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Ch ...Show more
The Essential Tales of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"--as we ...Show more
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch - magnificently flawed and eccentric - living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in t ...Show more
Dig Two Graves by Carolyn Morwood
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Six international artists are invited to a residency in southern Spain. What could possibly go wrong? Writer's block and paintings of oranges. ?Love, lust, revenge.?A sculptor left for dead on the side of a mountain. Part love story, part thriller and wholly page-turning, Dig Two Graves shows us once?a ...Show more
A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century - displacement and migration - but not as you imagine them. Five characters, in very diff ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. Kendall has failed a ...Show more