The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Two children, strangers, wait in a house in Paris: Leopold for his mother, whom he has never seen, and Henrietta for a train. Upstairs an old woman lies dying and her daughter flutters round her. The author exposes the apprehensions of the children and the reasons for their presence in the house.
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Adult
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the sc ...Show more
I Who Have Never Known Men: Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic tale by Jacqueline Harpman
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world.Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?Watched over by guards, the women have no m ...Show more
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story. A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A major modern classic: the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemoia 'Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' - Ali Smith 'A novel to love as well as admire, always playful and ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots and absu ...Show more
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' GuardianMurderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent by ...Show more
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy; Heather Cleary (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation ...Show more
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction. 'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...' It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-o ...Show more
The Dyehouse: Text Classics by Mena Calthorpe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"Written with unerring skill and insight, The Dyehouse is a masterly portrait of postwar Australia,when industrial work was radically transformed by new technologies and society changed with it. Mena Calthorpe:who herself worked in a textile factory:takes us inside this world, vividly bringing to life t ...Show more
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Gol ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were ...Show more