Mexico: New Voices, Old Traditions: Part 20 by Various Authors
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
To celebrate the Year of Mexico in the UK and the Year of the UK inMexico in 2015, Hay Festival, the British Council and Conacultahave joined forces to bring twenty young Mexican writers under the age offorty, paired with twenty British translators, to an international readership. Broken families, a man ...Show more
The Last Roman: Honour by Jack Ludlow
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Category: Historical | Series: The Last Roman Trilogy
Sixth century Constantinople. Flavius Belisarius is barely eighteen and is already commander of the cavalry patrolling the Persian frontier. A brilliant soldier but a poor schemer - Flavius needs to be both in order to survive the febrile politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. When his friend, Petrus Sab ...Show more
The Barnum Museum: Stories by Steven Millhauser
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Category: Contemporary
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Musta ...Show more
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
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Category: Historical
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vi ...Show more
Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unsettling what-ifs or that find b ...Show more
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In his first full length work since Shortcomings in 2007, Adrian Tomine has produced another unforgettable collection of stories and characters: 'Amber Sweet' shows the disastrous impact of mistaken identity in a hyper-connected world; 'A brief history of the art form known as Hortisculpture' details th ...Show more
Blast from the Past by Ben Elton
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone. Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong. Only someone bad would call at ...Show more
Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Shopaholic
Like mother, like daughter...! Shopaholic Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood)'s two-year-old is ...spirited. She knows what she wants, whether it's a grown-up Prada handbag or a toy pony (40% off, so a bargain, surely?) When yet another shopping trip turns to mayhem, Becky decides it's time to give Minnie her ...Show more
Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Shopaholic
Rebecca Bloomwood has the dream job. She's a personal shopper, so is able to spend other people's money all day instead of her own. And she gets paid for doing it. The perfect job, the perfect man - gorgeous Luke Brandon - and now...the perfect wedding. Yes, Luke has proposed and wedding bells are in si ...Show more
Araluen by Judy Nunn
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Category: Contemporary
A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. On a blistering hot day in 1850, George and Richard Ross take their first steps on Australian soil after three long months at sea. All they have is each other, and a quarterly remittance from their irate father who has ...Show more