Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers . . . stupendously good' Australian'Vastly entertaining' Sunday ...Show more
Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A.D. 1172. Henry II's three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it's Eleanor of Aquitaine's involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal family collapses and a marriage ends in al ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.' Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats among them. The stories give free rein to Wilde's origi ...Show more
The Stranger by Kate Riordan
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1940, Cornwall, England. Penhallow Hall shelters a handful of Land Girls, sent to the coast to avoid the horrors of London's Blitz. But the beautiful, arrogant Diana Devlin, impatient with the sleepy village and its placid residents, can't resist the temptation to stir up long-buried secrets. When a y ...Show more
The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean by Mira Robertson
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1944 Emily Dean is dispatched from Melbourne to stay with relatives in rural Victoria. At the family property, Mount Prospect, she finds that Grandmother is determined to keep up standards despite the effects of the war, while Della, the bible-quoting cook, rules the kitchen with religious fervour. I ...Show more
The Art of Persuasion by Susan Midalia
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Twenty-five-year-old Hazel is reading the classics, starting with 'A'. It's one way to pass the time when you've quit your job and lost your way. But then she has a chance encounter with an irresistible older man. When Hazel is partnered with him on a political campaign, her attraction is deepened by t ...Show more
Ironbark by Jay Carmichael
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
He shouldn't have a life he never asked for and be expected to love men. With their problems never spoken outward. And childhood trauma and family issues. Men wanting to be held or hold.Markus Bello's life has stalled. Living in a small country town, mourning the death of his best friend, Grayson, Marku ...Show more
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fans of The Little Paris Bookshop will delight in this tender novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a passionate librarian--a Holocaust survivor determined to leave Europe behind as she opens the first bookshop h ...Show more
Census by Jesse Ball
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY The New York Times - The Chicago Reader - Nylon - The Boston Globe - The Huffington Post - The Rumpus - The AV Club - Southern Living - The Millions - Buzzfeed - Esquire A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devasta ...Show more
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Conceived while his larger-than-life father, Bear Bavinsky, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, the young Pinch learns that his father''s genius trumps everything else. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy--first as a painter, and then as his father''s biographer, before s ...Show more
The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture, every word. "I can't do it," he said. "I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye and I just can't goddamn do it."'The Dinner Party immerses us in the comic an ...Show more