Praise by Andrew McGahan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of The "Australian"/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Award. "Praise" is an utterly frank and dar ...Show more
Dunedin by Shena Mackay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: VMC
New Zealand, 1909. After weeks at sea the new minister, Jack Mackenzie, arrives from Scotland with his unhappy wife and children in tow. A keen naturalist, he is more enthralled by the botanical - and carnal - delights of Dunedin than in the wellbeing of his flock. In London, eighty years later, Jack Ma ...Show more
The Orchard on Fire by Mackay, Shena
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles. Ruby and I stared at it and each other . . . dark-windowed, out of place in a thicket of thorns, it was the perfect hide-out, house, the camp of our dreams' ...Show more
Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Ibis Trilogy
The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares ...Show more
Sleeping On Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 AND WINNER OF THE 2016 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world. A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy ...Show more
Dear Mr M by Herman Koch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A hair-raising new tour de force from Herman Koch, New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool. Once a celebrated writer, M's greatest success came with a suspense novel based on a real-life, unsolved disappearance. It told the story of a history teacher who went ...Show more
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Roisin and Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes. While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and the skies and for all there is to discover about the world, Francois was raised by his beautiful young mother, who dre ...Show more
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For fans of The Night Circus, comes a sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who discovers that his family labours under a terrible curse. Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Island Sound. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious book connected to his family. The book te ...Show more
Our Young Man by Edmund White
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships' New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Is ...Show more
Shelter by Jung Yun
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
You never know what goes on behind closed doors. Kyung Cho owns a house that he can't afford. Despite his promising career as a tenure-track professor, he and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now their bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family's ...Show more
Waterland: Picador Classic by Graham Swift
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by John BurnsideShortlisted for the 1983 Booker prize, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the story-telling animal.Tom Crick is a pa ...Show more
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped brea ...Show more