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
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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
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughterâe(tm)s wedding, June Reidâe(tm)s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family âe" her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hun ...Show more
Dancing in the Dark (#4 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Category: Contemporary | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: very good
"The fourth part of the sensational My Struggle series that has been hailed as perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times (Guardian)Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself or in any other job for t ...Show more
Seeing Other People by Mike Gayle
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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