The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash- an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea,and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news age ...Show more
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and the speed with which it spreads, the people of the county start to die in their thousands. A culture of terror and superstition quickly sweeps across the ...Show more
What She Left by Rosie Fiore
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Helen Cooper has a charmed life. She's beautiful, accomplished, organised - the star parent at the school. Until she disappears.But Helen wasn't abducted or murdered. She's chosen to walk away, abandoning her family, husband Sam, and her home.Where has Helen gone, and why? What has driven her from her s ...Show more
Fearless by Fiona Higgins
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Set in Bali
The breathtakingly suspenseful new novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers' Group and Wife on the RunSix strangers from across the world meet on the tropical island of Bali to attend a course designed to help them face their fears. Their backgrounds are as diverse as their fears, which range fr ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C K Stead
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
The Hidden Keys - Highway 59 by Andre Alexis
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the depths of the ill-reputed Green Dolphin bar, Tancred Palmieri, a talented thief with extravagant tastes, encounters Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that prov ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else would ...Show more
Friend of My Youth by Amit Chaudhuri
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit's mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining ...Show more
A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Akhil Sharma's new collection is a remarkable achievement. These tender, elegant stories - each of which was first published in the New Yorker - all explore the unpredictability of human emotion. In the sleek, minimalist prose for which his prize-winning novel Family Life was acclaimed, Sharma skilfully ...Show more
The Secret Books by Marcel Theroux
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Seeking adventure, a young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of 19th century Paris.Travelling undercover in the mountains of British India, he discovers a manuscript that transforms the world's understanding of the historic ...Show more
2023: A Trilogy by [KLF] The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Well we're back again, They never kicked us out, twenty thousand years of SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT. Down through the epochs and out across the continents, generation upon generation of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu have told variants of the same story - an end of days story, a final chapter story. But one wi ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The trilogy follows the lives of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan from the confines of a convent school in the Irish countryside to the bright lights of Dublin, and on to the unexpected challenges of married life in London. These are novels about innocence and youth, love and passion, dreams and r ...Show more