Pedro Páramo by Juán Rulfo; Douglas J. Weatherford (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A new translation of the legendary Mexican classic of magic realism which went on to inspire the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild by Mathias Énard; Frank Wynne
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture the essence of rurality, the intrepid scholar shuttles around restlessly on his moped to interview l ...Show more
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love - a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both. Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he c ...Show more
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Treat yourself to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo, part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics 'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Sm ...Show more
An Answer from the Silence - A Story from the Mountains by Max Frisch; Mike Mitchell (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world? " This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the hero of ...Show more
The Cheffe: A Culinary Novel by Marie NDiaye
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement" - Madeleine Schwartz, New York Review of Books"Rich, meandering . . . NDiaye excels at luscious, forensic descriptions of the ritualistic preparation of food" - Catherine Taylor, Mail on ...Show more
The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father's neglect and her mother's sadness, she begi ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...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.
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her pers ...Show more
The Dyehouse: Text Classics by Mena Calthorpe
$12.95 AUD
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
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for FictionShortlisted for the International Dublin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year The breathtaking new novel from Eimear McBride, about an extraordinary, all ...Show more