Landing by Susan Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Jonathan Lott is confused. His wife has left him for a woman and he doesn't like living alone. Is it true that an about-to-be-divorced man in possession of a good fortune is in need of a new wife? Would Penny Collins do, divorced herself, school teacher and frustrated artist? What about beautiful Anna, ...Show more
Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Budd ...Show more
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In the late 80s, Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF. Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life. By the age of nineteen Katherine has lost her mother to cancer, and feels her father to be an increasingly distant figure. Instead of going to college, ...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
Rebellion by Livi Michael
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"Has the colour and power of the best of the chronicles she uses." (Sunday Times on Succession). Margaret Beaufort and Margaret of Anjou - two women who will stop at nothing to place their sons on the English throne. In exile in France with her young son Prince Edward, Margaret of Anjou at last gives up ...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 Last Roman: Honour by Jack Ludlow
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Last Roman Trilogy
Sixth century Constantinople. Flavius Belisarius is barely eighteen and is already commander of the cavalry patrolling the Persian frontier. A brilliant soldier but a poor schemer - Flavius needs to be both in order to survive the febrile politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. When his friend, Petrus Sab ...Show more