Mothers and Daughters by Kylie Ladd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Four mothers. Four teenage daughters...An isolated tropical paradise with no internet or mobile phone reception...What could possibly go wrong?..There's tension, bitchiness, bullying, sex, drunken confessions, bad behaviour and breakdowns - and wait till you see what the teenagers get up to.....How can ...Show more
This Picture of You by Sarah Hopkins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'... a weighty book about important things, expertly told and very moving' - Malcolm Knox, author of 'The Life'..Martin and Maggie have been together for thirty-seven years. He is a judge and she is a painter. They have a high-flying lawyer son and a much loved grandson. Life is good, comfortable, famil ...Show more
Mothers Grimm by Danielle Wood
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You make deals with God. You make deals with the Devil. You're not fussy. But as a wise man once said: It's the saying you don't care what you get what gets you jiggered. So you say it, and you're jiggered, but what you give birth to is a hedgehog. It's prickly and its cry is a noise so terrible that yo ...Show more
The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean Michel Guenassia
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marin is drawn to the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on ...Show more
The Remains of Love by Zeruya Shalev
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hemda Horovitz is nearing the end of her life. As she lies in bed in Jerusalem, the present flickers in and out as memories from the past flood her thoughts: her childhood in the kibbutz spent under the disappointed gaze of her stern, pioneer father; the lake that was her only solace; and her own tw ...Show more
Mrs Fox by Sarah Hall
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her lips are thin and her nose is a dark blade. Teeth small and yellow. The lashes of her hazel eyes have thickened and her brows are drawn together, an expression he has never seen, a look that is almost cra ...Show more
In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Already hailed as a Cold War classic". (Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year). "Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe". (Anna Funder, author of Stasiland). It is an international bestseller and Winner of the German Book Prize. It is a sweepin ...Show more
The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; stories suc ...Show more
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Iris and Eva become one another's family. Iris wants to be a movi ...Show more
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons | Reading Level: good
'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .'So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gu ...Show more
Spoiled Brats by Simon Rich
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of love in The Last Girlfriend on Earth, Simon Rich's next book is another subject we can all relate to: parents and their kids. From the perils of raising an actual monster in Manhattan - it's pretty hard to find teachers who really understand the tale ...Show more
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Swearing to his dying mother that he'll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro Paramo, Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of ...Show more