His Illegal Self by Carey Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's His Illegal Self, with a cover by Michael Leunig Che is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he yearns for his famous outlaw parents. Soon Che too is an outlaw: ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Carey Peter
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Category: Contemporary
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake, with a cover by Michael Leunig In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely f ...Show more
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change.Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely comin ...Show more
Shark by Will Self
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever ...Show more
Falling out of Time by David Grossman
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Category: Contemporary
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a ...Show more
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Imperfectionists is a novel about the peculiar people who write and read an international newspaper based in Rome: from the obituary reporter who will do anything to avoid work, to the dog-obsessed publisher who seems less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his magnificent basset hound, ...Show more
Beneath The Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When the rebels come to Obinna's village, they do more than wreak terror for one night. Lining the children up in the middle of the village, they measure them against the height of an AK-47. Those who are shorter than the gun are left behind. Those who are taller are taken. Obinna and his older brother ...Show more
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
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Category: Historical
July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about ...Show more
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli; Christina MacSweeney
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Category: Contemporary
Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sen ...Show more
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
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Category: Contemporary
Longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a ...Show more
Leap by Myfanwy Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A few weeks after finishing their final exams, high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. Joe wants to go--Jen begs him to stay. They fight in the corridor, following their usual script, and then he walks out and leaves her. A few hours later she dies. Three years on, after burning up his ow ...Show more
Honours by Tim Clare
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
TRUE HONOUR IS ENDLESS. JOIN US. 1935. Norfolk.War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Delphine Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable ...Show more