Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Abacus Bks.
Geek Loveis the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . ...Show more
Black Rock White City: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love. During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan's cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent. For Jovan the mysterious words that must be cle ...Show more
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and for ...Show more
The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A brilliantly comic and intelligent literary mystery from Karen Joy Fowler, the bestselling Man Booker shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes t ...Show more
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever h ...Show more
Analogue Men by Nick Earls
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Do you ever feel like you might have just one more chance to get on top of your life and make things happen? Andrew Van Fleet and Bamberg Davis Kirchner have parted company. Private equity has let him go without a fuss and he's opting for a job that will let him spend more time at home. But the house i ...Show more
Man Tiger - A Novel by Eka Kurniawan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"After half a century," writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson, "Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor." Eka Kurniawan has been described as the "brightest meteorite" in Indonesia's new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty, elegance, cosmopolitani ...Show more
Brother's Keeper by C. E. Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"When disgraced American doctor Burkett's twin is murdered while working for a Christian medical charity, Burkett travels to war-torn Khandaros to claim his brother's body. Staring down at the lifeless form in the mortuary, it is as though Burkett is gazing at his own failings. His twin was first and be ...Show more
Their Lips Talk of Mischief by Alan Warner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
High up in the Conrad Flats that loom bleakly over Acton, two future stars of the literary scene - or so they assume - are hard at work, tapping out words of wit and brilliance between ill-paid jobs writing captions for the Cat Calendar 1985 and blurbs for trashy novels with titles like Brothel of the V ...Show more
Archipelago of Souls (FS) by Gregory Day
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Day is one of a small, bold band of Australian novelists...whose imaginative compass is as spacious as is their appetite for risk." The Weekend Australian "Day has chiselled artfully away at his creation, and the result is lovely." The Saturday Paper In the aftermath of the Second World War, an Austral ...Show more
Love after Love by Ingrid Persaud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The debut novel from the winner of the BBC Short Story Award is a love letter to family and friendship in all its forms. It has a West Indian heart, a Caribbean setting and a truly Trini voice. Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love.Irrepressible Betty ...Show more