Our Young Man by Edmund White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'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 Isl ...Show more
Grief Cottage: A Novel by Gail Godwin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a ...Show more
Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space by Linda Jaivin
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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Alexander : the virtues of war by Steven Pressfield
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'There is nothing impossible to him who will try...' He ascended to the throne of Macedon at the age of nineteen. He conquered the seemingly invincible Persian Empire before he was twenty-five. He died at the age of thirty-two, undefeated by any enemy. His reputation as a warrior and leader of men remai ...Show more
Keeping Faith by Roger Averill
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In Keeping Faith the innocence and certainties of childhood are delicately tested against the realities of adult life. Josh and Gracie grow up in a working class world centred on the values of faith and family. Both cherish their father, a lay preacher, and their mother, but for Josh the complex secrets ...Show more
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Tras El paciente ingl s, Ondaatje reafirma en Divisadero su extraordinaria capacidad para moverse en el dif cil terreno de los sentimientos y para tratar las pasiones, las p rdidas y la persistencia del pasado. Un relato de inusual intensidad y belleza. En la m s ntima y hermosa de sus historias, Michae ...Show more
Octet by James Wieland
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
‘Michael O’Connell is dead!’ Spanning the week of his burial, from his obituary to the wake, eight characters whose lives – some intimately, some more obliquely – have intersected his, slowly open up the carefully constructed compartments of his very private, very financially successful, life, even ...Show more
All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan; Jessica Cohen (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A chance encounter in New York brings two strangers together: Liat is an idealistic translation student, Hilmi a talented young painter. Together they explore the city, share fantasies, jokes and homemade meals, and fall in love. There is only one problem: Liat is from Israel, Hilmi from Palestine.Keepi ...Show more
The Shouting in the Dark - & Other Southern Writing by Elleke Boehmer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Late at night Ella watches her elderly father on the veranda, raging at the South African night sky. Caught between her mother's longing for her lost Dutch home, and her father's shattering wartime experiences in the Indian Ocean, Ella fights hard to understand where she fits into their lives and how to ...Show more
Story Fire by Fellowship of Australian Write
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
White Eagles over Serbia by Lawrence Durrell
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peacock Bks.
Set in Yugoslavia during the Cold War, this book is based on the author's experience of working there for the Foreign Office in the 1950s. The book is about a British secret service officer sent to investigate the murder of a colleague and the activities of royalists guerrillas.
Interstellar Pig by William Sleator
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Interstellar Pig Ser.
A teenager becomes interested in a strange board game called Interstellar Pig, the obsession of his new and unusual neighbors, and he soon stumbles into a nightmare when he discovers that the game is real