When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befall one family "Sola pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistib ...Show more
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck ...Show more
The Romantic by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and ...Show more
Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular
'A truly adorable, heart-warming, swoon-worthy love story' Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The Flatshare'Read this the right way (in one day), and miss it so badly all ready. Like being inside Sally Thorne's cute, cozy, whimsically wall-papered . . . No one writes like Sally. . .Just. So. Sweet' Emi ...Show more
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gorgeous new edition of Elizabeth Strout's celebrated novel The Burgess Boys Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown for New York as soon as they could. Jim, a successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his ...Show more
Riots I Have Known by Ryan Chapman
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman's "gritty, bracing debut" (Esquire) set during a prison riot is "dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious...one of the smartest--and best--novels of the year" (NPR). A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate ...Show more
The Diplomat by Chris Womersley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
1991. Fresh out of detox and five years after his involvement in the theft of Picasso's masterpiece The Weeping Woman from the NGV, Edward Degraves - art forger and drug addict - returns to Melbourne for a new start. All he needs to do is make one last visit to The Diplomat, a seedy motel renowned for i ...Show more
Crow's Breath by John Kinsella
$25.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and Christopher Brennan Award (for lifetime achievement in poetry) and shortlisted in the Steele Rudd Prize for a collection of short fiction, John Kinsella returns with a not-to-be-missed addition to the canon of one of Australia's most original ...Show more
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A bold and lyrical novel about memory, love, a swimming pool - and the many ways we lose and find each other again. From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the AtticUp above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, ...Show more
Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Prickly. Stubborn. Terribly lonely. But everyone deserves a second chance... A dazzling debut for 2020 - are you ready to meet Missy Carmichael? Missy Carmichael's life has become small. Grieving for a family she has lost or lost touch with, she's haunted by the echoes of her footsteps in her empty hom ...Show more
Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us what we usually deny - the uneasy truce we make with our ruthless desires and gothic fears, and how easily it can be broken. Prize-winning author Chloe Wilson's stories will pin you to the page. 'Chilling ...Show more
A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Around you the world is swirling - you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water. In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles fr ...Show more