The Appointment by Herta Müller
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'I've been summoned. Thursday morning, ten sharp'. Thus begins the day in the life of a young factory worker in Romania. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. 'Marry me,' the notes say, with her name and address. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, she consider ...Show more
Trespass by Rose Tremain
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bu ...Show more
The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
A soaring novel of resilience, hope, strength and tenderness, The Taliban Cricket Club reveals how love can overcome, and outwit, even the power of tyrants. Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in Kabul, is summoned to the infamous Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to face i ...Show more
White Truffles in Winter by N. M. Kelby
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: General Adult
White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions - kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry - Escoffier was also torn between tw ...Show more
Marlford by Jacqueline Yallop
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Ellie Barton has spent her young life living in the dilapidated manor house with her elderly father. Her duty is to her aristocratic lineage, something of which she is often reminded by those few people around her. But Marlford, the local village founded by her grandfather, is in decay - subsidence from ...Show more
And Their Children after Them by Nicolas Mathieu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
August 1992. Fourteen-year old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to fight their all-consuming boredom on a lazy summer afternoon. Their simple act of defiance will lead to Anthony's first love and his first real summer - that one summer that comes to define everything that follows. Over fo ...Show more
The Free by Willy Vlautin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In his heartbreaking yet hopeful fourth novel, award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for illuminating the disquiet of modern American life, captured in the experiences of three memorable characters looking for meaning in distressing times. Severely wounded in the Iraq ...Show more
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends. Some were lost to the battles of the First World War, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended. Now, at the dawn of the 1920s, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain, each o ...Show more
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, but really it was just my mother. ...Show more
Blood Brothers by Ernst Haffner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, describi ...Show more
Endgame by Ahmet Altan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'I don't remember pulling the trigger; I only heard the gunshot. And then I saw a mouth opening, as if to speak, a face contorted, one hand in the air...And then a body falling ...' A man retires to a sun-baked Turkish town for a quiet life. But he finds a world of suspicion, paranoia and violence. The ...Show more
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in Paris. Yet there is on ...Show more