Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness comes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors in 19th-century New York. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bri ...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
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Howard Jacobson, one of Britain's greatest ...Show more
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who s ...Show more
Beneath the Earth by John Boyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to prote ...Show more
Fortune Smiles - Stories by Adam Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Karen Jay Fowler.'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times 'Ironic, witty, ...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
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mo ...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
Plexus (#2) by Henry Miller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work. Exploring one mans desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Miller's scandalous semi-autobiographical trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. It finds him in the midst of his stor ...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
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam âe" a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophiaâe(tm)s husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the ...Show more