The Divine Wind by Garry Disher
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alice, Hartley, Mitsy and Jamie are kids growing up in Broome before the Second World War. Their lives, although very different, are bound by friendship. Hartley and Alice Penrose are the children of an uneducated pearling master and a cultivated, disgruntled mother. Mitsy Sennosuke is Japanese, the dau ...Show more
Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo; Yan Yan (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your balls crushed.' Twenty-one-year-old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing his virginity. His dreams come true in the shape of the beautiful doctor Cheng Qinyang. So begins the ...Show more
A House Built on Sand by Tina Shaw
$0.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files--and her job as a result. Her marbles? 'Mild cognitive impairment', according to the doctor. Time for a nursing home, according to her daughter, Rose. Rose has her own troubles with memory: a recurring vi ...Show more
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Shortlisted - Booker Prize 2021 From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality. It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpect ...Show more
The Life of the Mind - A Novel by Christine Smallwood
$54.00 AUD
Category: No Category
A witty, intelligent story of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction"Christine Smallwood's debut novel is that rare thing: an intellectual page-turner that commands one's attention completely from the first sentence to the final line."--Andrew Martin, author of Early Work and ...Show more
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As "The Dream of the Celt" opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past yea ...Show more
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister ...Show more
The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious exposé. While attempting to field the scandal, the businessman's wife, seeking comfort, begins a secret affair with the wife of his best friend. Then the editor is found mur ...Show more
Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as I sit at my writing bureau ... it is a soothing sound.' Mina, a writer, is navigating her place in the world, balancing creativit ...Show more
The Other Side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The irresistible historical comedy about two rival mediums in Victorian London Mrs Wood is London’s most celebrated medium. She’s managed to survive decades in the competitive world of contacting the Other Side, has avoided the dreaded slips that revealed others as frauds and is still hosting packed-out ...Show more
The Goodbye Cat: The uplifting tale of wise cats and their humans by the global bestselling author of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES by Hiro Arikawa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new Japanese bestseller- seven fabulous warm, wise and sarcastic cats support the complicated lives of their humans BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their o ...Show more