Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
This is not a cautionary tale about too much - or the wrong kind - of fucking. This is not a story of bad things happening to bad girls. I say this because I know you, Dex, and I know how you think. I'm going to tell you a story, and this time, it will be the truth. Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were ...Show more
The Latecomer by Dimitri Verhulst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Désiré Cordier - mild-mannered former librarian, put-upon husband, lover of boules - is losing his mind. Or is he? Happily tucked away in the Winterlight Home for the Elderly, Désiré is looking forward to a quiet retirement with the other forgetful residents, safe in the knowledge that no one knows he's ...Show more
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Captain Tom Barnes is leading British troops in a war zone. Two boys are growing up there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites, before finding themselves separated once the soldiers appear in their countryside. On all sides of this conflict, people are about to be caught up in the violence, from t ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$150.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Reading Level: very good
Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family.
This Census-Taker by China Mieville
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event. He tries - and fails - to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape. When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his ...Show more
When the Sky Fell Apart by Caroline Lea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
She turned to look at the sea. Flat stretch of water, blank and blue as the sky above. Pretty as a picture, except with black and grey craters where the bombs had fallen: as though some thuggish child had scrawled all over the picture out of spite alone...Jersey, June 1940. It starts with the burning ma ...Show more
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
$125.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Reading Level: very good
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good