The Modern by Anna Kate Blair
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things? Set in the pristine, precarious world of MoMA, The Modern is a brilliantly wry and insightful debut about art, sexuality, commitment and whether being on the right path can lead to the wrong place. Things seem to be working ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a cit ...Show more
The Employees - A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes stran ...Show more
When One of Us Hurts by Monica Vuu
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: good-very good
'When one of us hurts, we all hurt...' Port Brighton hates outsiders. The small coastal town has its own ways of dealing with the evil, the foolish, the misled, and it holds tightly to them. But the seams start to split after two deaths occur on the same tragic night: a baby abandoned at the foot of a l ...Show more
White on White by Aysegul Savas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I loved this book for its depth and perception, for its beauty and eerie rhythms, but most of all for its wonderfully dream-like spell. It's breathtaking' Brandon TaylorA student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her h ...Show more
What You Are Looking for is in the Library: The uplifting Japanese fiction bestseller by Michiko Aoyama
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation. 'I definitely want to visit this library. I feel kinder after this book' 5***** - Reader review What are you l ...Show more
Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Izumi Suzuki had ideas of how things might be done differently, ideas that paid little the laws of physics, or the laws of the courts. In this new collection her skewed imagination is applied to some classic science fiction and fantasy tropes. A philandering husbands receives a bestial punishment fro ...Show more
Francisco by Alison Mills Newman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alison Mills Newman's innovative, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A "fluently funky mix of standard and nonstandard English," as the poet and scholar Harryette Mullen once put it, Francisco is the first-person account of a young actress and musician and her growing ...Show more
After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel It's an author's job to create a new world in the pages of a book. But when lines start to blur and reality begins to fade, getting lost in a story can be dangerous - especially if you can't find your way back... Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Ed ...Show more
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befall one family "Sola pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistib ...Show more
Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mysteryIn a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate- the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks ...Show more