Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love and a journalist's obsession. Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as the 'Narito Disappearances', the crime has authorities baffled - until ...Show more
The Futurist Cookbook by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for ...Show more
You Are a Cat in the Zombie Apocalypse
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
You are Holden Catfield. You’re a cat! It’s a pretty peaceful life. But one day the man in the family you live with comes home feeling quite sick, passing out in the living room. When he awakes, he isn’t the same. He tries to bite everyone! The only people in the house when he changes are you, the girl, ...Show more
Close Range by E Annie Proulx
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From one of the great writers of our time comes a collection of award-winning stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Her masterful language and vast love of the West are evident in these stunning portraits which have appeared in "The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly" and ...Show more
Coal Creek by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
"Me and Ben had been mates since we was boys and if it come to it I knew I would have to be on his side."Bobby Blue is caught between loyalty to his only friend, Ben Tobin, and his boss, Daniel Collins, the new constable at Mount Hay. "Ben was not a big man but he was strong and quick as a snake. He had ...Show more
Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
I understand suddenly why I'm running. I need to warn them about the pressure switch, hidden in the crack in the road. The driver won't see it. They don't have a chance. I wave my arms, a heartbeat before the whole nasty serpent shrieks to life, and fill my lungs to cry out. And then, like always, I wak ...Show more
Flora by Gail Godwin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's dilapidated family home while her father is doing secret war work during the final months of the Second World War. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imagi ...Show more
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Maddaddam Trilogy Ser.
In a little enclave called the cob house a motley crew of survivors live alongside the green-eyed Crakers, a gentle, inquisitive species bio-engineered to replace humans.Toby, a member of the now-defunct Gods Gardeners, is still in love with Zeb. The Crakers' reluctant prophet, Snowman (or Jimmy, or Sno ...Show more
Landscape with Solitary Figure by Shonagh Koea
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Very Good
A novel about the transporting power of the imagination, about overcoming your past, and about the beauty of a solitary life. Ellis sits in her house writing, looking out of her window, gardening and walking by the sea. While telling of her current life, she is slowly edging towards and away from her me ...Show more
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany."In the summer of 1953, two ...Show more
We are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A stunning, heartbreaking debut - 'We Are Not Ourselves' is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century. The product of a stormy upbringing in an Irish Catholic enclave of New York City, Eileen craves stability. Coming of age in the early Sixties, she meets and marries a youn ...Show more
Lyrebird Hill by Anna Romer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
With the success of her debut novel Thornwood House still fresh, Anna Romer's new novel Lyrebird Hill promises to be every bit as captivating. Ruby Cardel has the semblance of a normal life--a loving boyfriend, a career she loves--but in one terrible moment, her life begins to unravel. The discovery tha ...Show more