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
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Reading Level: very good
Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most c ...Show more
number9dream by David Mitchell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: number nine dream | Reading Level: good
As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he begins a thrilling, whirlwind journey where dreams, memories and reality collide then diverge as Eiji is caught up in a feverish succession of encounters by turn biz ...Show more