A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adopted as a baby towards the end of World War II, Robert Dessaix grew up haunted by 'a shaft of silence' surrounding the question of his natural mother's identity, and of his own identity and sexuality. In this touching memoir, he recounts the story of a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, ...Show more
Atlantic Black by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
`A powerful and mesmerising voyage into darkness. Atlantic Black creates an indelible portrait of humanity sailing towards war.¿Heather Rose, Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. In this haunting new novel, Katerina Klova and her mother are crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner. When Anne suffers a psychotic ...Show more
Practical Magic: The Beloved Novel of Love, Friendship, Sisterhood and Magic (Practical Magic 1) by Alice Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Practical Magic Ser.
"From one of the most captivating storytellers in American fiction comes a tale of two sisters, Gillian and Sally Owens, brought up by their two elderly guardian aunts in a world of spells and exotica. As the magical charm of their childhood wears away, they escape from this mystical mayhem -one by runn ...Show more
Stella and Margie by Glenna Thomson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A beautiful novel about two women - a generation apart - thrown together by circumstance, who slowly come to love and understand one another. Stella and her mother-in-law Margie are two very different women. Stella is kind, compassionate and just a little chaotic. Margie is prickly, demanding and a st ...Show more
The Complete Stories by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Thirty-one epic stories from Australia's award-winning author David Malouf. David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humor, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women looking for someth ...Show more
A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the novelist "The New Yorker" called "a writer of extraordinary power, " "A Feast of Snakes" is a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South and the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia.
The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When Delia Bennet
The Girl in The Tower (Winternight Trilogy #2) by Katherine Arden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Winternight Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
For a young woman in medieval Russia, the choices are stark- marriage or life in a convent. Vasya will choose a third way- magic. . .The court of the Grand Prince of Moscow is plagued by power struggles and rumours of unrest. Meanwhile bandits roam the countryside, burning the villages and kidnapping it ...Show more
The Futurist Cookbook by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for ...Show more
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Maddaddam Trilogy Ser.
In a little enclave called the cob house a motley crew of survivors live alongside the green-eyed Crakers, a gentle, inquisitive species bio-engineered to replace humans.Toby, a member of the now-defunct Gods Gardeners, is still in love with Zeb. The Crakers' reluctant prophet, Snowman (or Jimmy, or Sno ...Show more
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'ONE OF THE FICTION HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DECADE' Judy Finnigan, Richard and Judy Book Club Featured in the Richard and Judy Book Club, the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club Winner of the John W. Campbell Award Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ...Show more
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world--an ...Show more