Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes h ...Show more
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism. 'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsman 'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info 19 October 19 ...Show more
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian.'Suttree contains a humour that is Fa ...Show more
Quarantine by Jim Crace
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
*Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award**Shortlisted for the Booker Prize*'Dazzling, gritty brilliance' - Sunday Times'Completely captivating' - Literary ReviewJim Crace's provocative retelling of Jesus' forty day fast in the desert is a classic that tampers with tradition. Moving and fascinating in equal ...Show more
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An artist in her late twenties awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear. She is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the specter of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year - a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and lonelines ...Show more
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Roald Dahl Classic Collection
"The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. 'Hop in,' he said, opening his enormous beak . . ." MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats! AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, ...Show more
Coexistence - Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt
$0.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter's love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroticism. A man just out of prison balances the uneasy weight of family and freedom, while a professor retur ...Show more
Mouth - Stories by Puloma Ghosh
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Sometimes surreal, sometimes horrifying, always startling . . . Mouth introduces readers to Puloma Ghosh's unmatched ability to probe the visceral depths of female pain, desire, and grief." --Alice Martin, Shelf Awareness "A unique set of stories that show the promise of a bold new voice." --Kirkus Re ...Show more
Not a River by Selva Almada; Annie McDermott
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts of their past. B ...Show more
The Fruit Thief - Or, One-Way Journey into the Interior: a Novel by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke--one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original works On a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee. "The sting signaled that the time had come to set out, to hit the road. Off with you. The hour of departure has arrived." ...Show more
Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but with sinister overtones of betrayal and inconstancy. The four novellas in Sicilian Uncles, originally published in 1958, are political thrillers of a kind - the first fruits of Sciascia's maturity. In the ...Show more
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and na ve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of he ...Show more