Bit in Between by Claire Varley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
There are seven billion people in the world. This is the story of two of them. After an unfortunate incident in an airport lounge involving an immovable customs officer, a full jar of sun-dried tomatoes, quite a lot of vomit, and the capricious hand of fate, Oliver meets Alison. In spite of this less th ...Show more
Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A paying guest seems like a win-win proposition to the Joshi family. He s ready with the rent, he s willing to lend a hand when he can and he s happy to listen to Mrs Joshi on the imminent collapse of our culture. But he s also a man of mystery. He has no last name. He has no family, no friends, no hist ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year by J M Coetzee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
All about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love. It takes the reader from Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay, from the meaning of dishonour to the creative truth of dreams. Author has lived in Australia since 2002 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. First published 2 ...Show more
Stories from Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the little-known history of horrifying events that occurred on 1 January 1915 in the Australian out ...Show more
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The mesmerising new novel from the acclaimed author of The Bellwether Revivals: a rich and immersive story of love, obsession, creativity and disintegration. On a forested island off the coast of Istanbul stands Portmantle, a gated refuge for beleaguered artists. There, a curious assembly of painters, a ...Show more
See How Small by Scott Blackwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose 'that's as fine as any being written by an American author today' (Ben Fountain) One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. Th ...Show more
Seeing Other People by Mike Gayle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From My Legendary Girlfriend to Turning Forty, Mike Gayle's bestselling novels have taken his millions of readers through many key times for the modern man - friendship, courtship, stag weekends, marriage, work, holidays, significant birthdays - but SEEING OTHER PEOPLE is perhaps his most heart-warming, ...Show more
Higher Ed by Tessa McWatt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
London. Now. And here come the new Londoners. Francine would prefer to be thinner, but is happy enough to suffer her boss' manhandling of her ample hips if it helps her survive the next cull in Quality Assurance. She just wishes she could get the dead biker's crushed face out of her mind's eye. Robin is ...Show more
The Barnum Museum: Stories by Steven Millhauser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Musta ...Show more
Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unsettling what-ifs or that find b ...Show more
Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Shopaholic
Rebecca Bloomwood has the dream job. She's a personal shopper, so is able to spend other people's money all day instead of her own. And she gets paid for doing it. The perfect job, the perfect man - gorgeous Luke Brandon - and now...the perfect wedding. Yes, Luke has proposed and wedding bells are in si ...Show more
Sorrow Without End by Priscilla Royal
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Medieval Mystery
MEDIEVAL MYSTERY: On a remote East Anglian coast stands Tyndal Priory, home to a rare monastic order where men and women live and work together in close proximity. Twenty-year-old Eleanor of Wynethorpe has been appointed prioress by Henry III over the elected choice of the priory itself. Young and inexp ...Show more