The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly origin ...Show more
The Secret Maker of the World by Abbas El-Zein
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary
A powerful collection of fiction that lingers long after the last word
Shadow Of The Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border.
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who de ...Show more
The Winter War by Philip Teir
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Category: Literary
On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class dream in Helsinki. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid government job. They live in a beautiful apartment in the centre of the city. But look closer and the cracks start to show. As he approaches hi ...Show more
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves -- fingersmiths -- for whom t ...Show more
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid ...Show more
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
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Category: Literary
This book is shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015. For eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju, family life in Delhi in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing day-long games of cricket in the street. Everything changes whe ...Show more
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea by Lawrence Durrell
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Category: Literary
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria. In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to rec ...Show more
The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Literary
Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel. When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has ...Show more
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitt ...Show more
Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary
An enthralling novel that evokes a vanished era. Peking in the 1930s - an ancient city of warlords, bordered by brutal civil war, and a place of exquisite beauty. Laura Leroy, whose marriage to a diplomat has taken her far from home, lives divided between England and the social farce of diplomatic life ...Show more