My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant ca ...Show more
Barefoot Doctor by Can Xue
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists "A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means to pursue and live a fulfilling life."-Publishers Weekly ...Show more
Waypoints by Adam Ouston
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1910 the famed escapologist Harry Houdini made an ill-fated attempt to become the first person to fly an aircraft over Australian soil—yet while Houdini is remembered today for his failure, the true record-holder has been forgotten. This quirk of history becomes the focus for the obsessions of Berna ...Show more
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Enard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1506, Michelangelo—a young but already renowned sculptor—is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, along with an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci’s design was rejected: “You will surpass him in glor ...Show more
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