Echoland by Per Petterson
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents on the coast of Denmark. Dimly aware of the tension building between his mother and grandmother, Arvid is on the cusp of becoming a teenager: feeling awkw ...Show more
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities by Marguerite Duras
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husb ...Show more
Blood Dark by Louis Guilloux
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Louis Guilloux's novel Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. Cripure, as his students call him, the name a mocking contraction of The Critique of Pure Reason, despises his colleagues, despairs of his charges ...Show more
Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend with a troubled military past how his obsession about his young daughter's safety led him to lose control and put his marriage in peril. Above Arnon lives Hani, known as othe widow,o whos ...Show more
Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Unable to bear the prospect of a life at sea, young Anthony O'Connell deserts his ship at Torquay and escapes into the Devonshire countryside under a new name. When Stella Sprigg, adopted daughter of a local farmer, encounters 'Zachary', the pair instantly know they are destined to be together. Intertwi ...Show more
Green Dolphin Country by Elizabeth Goudge
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Breathtaking...A long vista of undulating story, with here and there peaks of volcanic excitement' Daily Telegraph A haunting love story set between the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th century. When young William Ozanne arrives on their island, sisters Marianne and Marguerite Le Patourel ...Show more
Towers in the Mist - The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Faithful Crocker, an impoverished young man with a love of learning, travels to Oxford in the hope of becoming a scholar, he is offered a home with Canon Leigh and his eccentric family.As Faithful begins to fulfil his academic dream, the Leigh family navigate the tricky waters of first love, uncove ...Show more
Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. It is fiction with a distinctive photographic framework - magical and unique. 'Hislop's passi ...Show more
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sometimes you have to travel to the farthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it...A panoramic historical epic and an unforgettable love story from the author of The Tenderness of Wolves, for fans of Kristin Hannah, Sarah Perry, and Barbara Kingsolver A whaler's daughter, Flora Mack ...Show more
The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A compact and compelling novel by an iconic Norwegian writer...[and] thanks to Don Bartlett and Don Shaw's crisp translation, we see it obliquely' - Independent Set in Finland in 1939, this is the story of one man who remains in his home town when everyone else has fled, burning down their houses in t ...Show more
The Mountain Between Us (Film Tie-In) by Charles Martin
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba From the author of Where the River Ends, comes this page-turning story of love and survival. On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, w ...Show more
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and ...Show more