The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next PickA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA rare seventeenth-century painting -- the only known surviving work of a woman who defied the expectations of her time -- links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in this exhilarating new novel ...Show more
The Little Friend: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Donna Tartt
$17.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
No Marketing Blurb
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$23.95 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Hana, the Canadian nurse exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; Caravaggio, the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upsta ...Show more
A Fig at the Gate: The Joys of Friendship, Gardening and the Gaining of Wisdom by Kate Llewellyn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Non-Fiction
A deeply satisfying diary of gardening, family, friends, ageing and renewal. In A Fig at the Gate, author Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, embraces a new phase in her life, asking the question, 'How does one live well?' Following the joyful crafting of her gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterl ...Show more
The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visit ...Show more
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world o ...Show more
The Hundred-Foot Journey (movie tie-in) by Richard C. Morais
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
This international bestseller will hit movie screens in August 2014. The Hundred-Foot Journey is about how the hundred-foot distance between a new Indian kitchen and a traditional French one can represent the gulf between different cultures and desires. A testament to the inevitability of destiny, this ...Show more
Housekeeping: Faber Modern Classics by Marilynne Robinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of the ...Show more
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottom ...Show more
John le Carre: The Biography: The Biography by Adam Sisman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Non-Fiction
Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carré a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glimpses of their author - b ...Show more
Run by Ann Patchett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
A moving story of overlapping lives from the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel CantoTip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increa ...Show more
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
1913 On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace. 1975 N ...Show more