Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work. Ghost Cities - inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China - follows multiple narratives, including one in whi ...Show more
The Whitewash by Siang Lu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Siang Lu's searing debut is a black comedy about the whitewashing of the Asian film industry, told in the form of an oral documentaryIt sounded like a good idea at the time- A Hollywood spy thriller, starring, for the first time in history, an Asian male lead. With an estimated $350 million production b ...Show more
A Woman in Sardinia by Valeria Usala
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Based on a true story, a tale of generations of Sardinian women searching for independence in the face of prejudice and superstition, for fans of Elena Ferrante In this striking debut, based on a true story, Valeria Usala bears witness to an age-old story of violence against women and takes us into the ...Show more
The Mark by Frida Isberg (translated by Larissa Kyzer)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In the near future, in Reykjavik, in a world like our own, society is divided about the controversial Empathy Test, which measures an individual’s capacity for compassion and identifies anti-social behaviour in citizens. Two thirds of the country, including public servants and politicians, have undergon ...Show more
The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The Devil's Larder is a novel in sixty-four parts, exploring our deepest human concerns - love, hate, hopes and desires - through our relationship with food. Packed with delightful and subversive ingredients, with behaviour more suited to the bedroom than to the table, and with the most curious and idos ...Show more
The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell- obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasiz ...Show more
Winnie and Wolf by A.N. Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
"Winnie and Wolf" is the story of the extraordinary relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1925-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth. Winifred, an English girl, brought up in an orphanage in East Grinstead, married ...Show more
THE BEDROOM SECRETS OF THE MASTER CHEFS by IRVINE WELSH
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, "A Life in Exile", it never occurs to him that his father, a distinguished professor of rhetoric, will write a devastating review in a leading newspaper. The subject seems inoffensive enough: the life of a German Jewish woman (a close family friend) who arr ...Show more