Awakening to the Great Sleep War by Gert Jonke
$17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One of the loveliest riddles of Austrian literature is finally available in English translation: Gert Jonke's 1982 novel, Awakening to the Great Sleep War, is an expedition through a world in constant nervous motion, where reality is rapidly fraying--flags refuse to stick to their poles, lids sidle off ...Show more
Stonemouth by Iain Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, ...Show more
The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next #7) by Jasper Fforde
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Category: Fiction | Series: Thursday Next Ser.
The seventh book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series by Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' - HeraldThe BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced ...Show more
The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One day an 11-year-old girl disappears. She was playing with friends from school. The crop is strengthened by her blood...Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, as some young women do, she obeys her parents, she does not stay late afte ...Show more
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records he ...Show more
The Average American Marriage: A Novel by Chad Kultgen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At last, the long-awaited sequel to The Average American Male (Harper, 2007): a new novel that finds Chad Kultgen's oversexed, blithely raunchy narrator now married with children. Kultgen's 'Average American Male' is now facing the prospect of permanent life as a married man - an existence even more fru ...Show more
I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With one night to remember a lifetime, I Married You for Happiness is a riveting and deeply moving love story. "His hand is growing cold, still she holds it." The story unfolds over a single night, as Nina, numb with grief, sits at the bedside of her husband Philip. There she recalls the defining moment ...Show more
Communion Town by Sam Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Man Booker longlisted Communion Town reveals the shadows and sinister inhabitants of a city that never appears the same way twice. On crowded streets, in the town squares and half-empty tower blocks, the lonely and lost try to make a connection. A weary gumshoe pounds the reeking sidewalks, seeking ...Show more
The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Edgar Kellogg , a disgruntled New York lawyer who has always yearned to be popular, is more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist mov ...Show more
A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A reissue of this classic World War II novel. Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve, 1944, A Midnight Clear is the story of Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs ordered to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau close to the German lines. Here they play at being soldiers in what se ...Show more
The Investigation by Philippe Claudel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Investigator is despatched to a provincial town to investigate a disturbing spate of suicides amongst the employees of The Firm. But from the moment he steps off the train, he finds that everything is against him, from the hostile weather to the town's bewildering inhabitants. Cold, hungry and humil ...Show more
Helen and Desire by Alexander Trocchi
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me here, and I cannot explain it. As always, it is stronger than fear. For me it has always been that way.. ...Show more