The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley by Jeremy Massey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established--some say the best--funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out of his car, intending t ...Show more
Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A paying guest seems like a win-win proposition to the Joshi family. He s ready with the rent, he s willing to lend a hand when he can and he s happy to listen to Mrs Joshi on the imminent collapse of our culture. But he s also a man of mystery. He has no last name. He has no family, no friends, no hist ...Show more
Promise Seed by Moriarty, Cass
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An elderly man, living alone in the suburbs, thinks back on his life - the missed opportunities, the shocking betrayals, the rare moments of joy. When his ten-year-old neighbour hides in his garden one afternoon, they begin an unexpected friendship that offers a reprieve from their individual struggles. ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year by J M Coetzee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
All about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love. It takes the reader from Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay, from the meaning of dishonour to the creative truth of dreams. Author has lived in Australia since 2002 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. First published 2 ...Show more
Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness comes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors in 19th-century New York. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bri ...Show more
Stories from Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the little-known history of horrifying events that occurred on 1 January 1915 in the Australian out ...Show more
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Howard Jacobson, one of Britain's greatest ...Show more
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who s ...Show more
Fortune Smiles - Stories by Adam Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Karen Jay Fowler.'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times 'Ironic, witty, ...Show more
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The mesmerising new novel from the acclaimed author of The Bellwether Revivals: a rich and immersive story of love, obsession, creativity and disintegration. On a forested island off the coast of Istanbul stands Portmantle, a gated refuge for beleaguered artists. There, a curious assembly of painters, a ...Show more
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mo ...Show more
See How Small by Scott Blackwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose 'that's as fine as any being written by an American author today' (Ben Fountain) One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. Th ...Show more