A Shock by Keith Ridgway
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'A Shock inhabits the secret life of a city, its hidden energies. It dramatizes how patterns form and then disperse, how stories are made and relationships created . . . remarkable' - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn'Political, pertinent, spunky and funny, A Shock is a grand sweep of modern storytelling' ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from the 2021 Booker Prizewinning author Damon Galgut The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the fam ...Show more
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In an old wardrobe a djinn sits weeping. It whimpers and murmurs small words of complaint. It sucks its teeth and berates the heavens for its fate. It curses the day it ever entered this damned house. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate overlooking the sparkling ocean beyond South Africa's eastern coas ...Show more
Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Dive into Tom Lake this Christmas - the breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett * THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 * * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK * * A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *'Filled with th ...Show more
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29 ...Show more
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers ... A stonkingly good novel. Just read it' SARAH WINMAN, bestselling author of Still Life 'It will no doubt be a bestseller' GILLIAN ANDERSON, GRAZIA It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette ...Show more
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A timeless, heart-wrenching story about love in the face of indoctrination and tragedy - perfect for fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Lovely Bones, and Life After Life. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his ide ...Show more
Dunster by John Mortimer
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Highly acclaimed novelist John Mortimer presents a novel of friends and enemies--for Philip Progmire, those two roles just happen to be filled by the same person.Dick Dunster and Philip Progmire have been friends since their days at school. They have also been adversaries. Progmire's thespian longings, ...Show more
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Facto ...Show more
Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: General Adult
Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, ...Show more
The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
A young woman's romantic fantasies collide with the realities of adult life in a new novel from the bestselling author of "Prep". In the summer of 1991, Hannah Gavener is fourteen. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Then Jerome, Howard's oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps. Increasingly, the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely regis ...Show more