Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: The international bestseller by Cho Nam-Joo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her broth ...Show more
The Milliner of Bendigo by Darry Fraser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Trouble with the law, a missing sister, and a growing attachment to the wrong man - Evie Emerson has a dangerous path ahead of her... From a bestselling Australian author comes an exciting and twisty historical mystery and adventure. 1898: Bendigo, VictoriaEvie Emerson has worked hard to build a fashion ...Show more
The Shelters of Stone (#5 Earth's Children) by Jean M. Auel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar's people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, e ...Show more
The Art of the Glimpse - 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinéad Gleeson (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Anthos Ser.
The #1 Irish Times bestseller A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations, winner of the Irish Book Award Non Fiction Book of the Year 2019. There have been many anthologies of the sho ...Show more
Galatea by Madeline Miller
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **A small hardback edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has ...Show more
Astray by Emma Donoghue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, ...Show more
Pure by Andrew Miller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very bre ...Show more
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might ...Show more
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of ...Show more
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Now a major motion picture- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, ...Show more
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmouli ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Swif ...Show more