The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, The Vegetarian is a beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invas ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The first collection of short fiction from legendary comic book writer Alan Moore Illuminations is a momentous, wildly original collection of short stories from 'the king of comics' (Guardian), each featuring some kind of illumination or realisation. From the four horsemen of the apocalypse to the Boltz ...Show more
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKTOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020, NEW YORK TIMES'A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the year's best novels.' The Washington PostFrom the winner of a National Book Award and aut ...Show more
The Other Side of Her by B.M. Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Sydney resident B.M. Carroll has been published successfully in Australia from overseas. The Other Side of Her is the first time she will be actively and passionately published and promoted by an Australian publisher. A missing backpackerA million-dollar reward Ordinary people cracking under pressure Bu ...Show more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Marquez 2014
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the mor ...Show more
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardize ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friend ...Show more
These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Salma El-Wardany deftly reveals searing and poignant truths about the female experience' ASHLEY AUDRAIN They recognized that they were all existing in a perfect moment, and eventually it would have to end. Other times it felt like it would always be this way. These Impossible Things charts the dreams ...Show more
Golden Days by Caroline Barron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My NameBecky thought she'd left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Until now.Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Be ...Show more
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her pers ...Show more
A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Winman excels in her sweeping prose and her unwavering theme of love in all its forms' Stylist This is a story about Marvellous Ways, an eighty-nine-year-old woman who sits by a creek in Cornwall, waiting for a last adventure. And it's about Francis Drake, a young soldier who washes up there, reeli ...Show more