Landing by Susan Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Jonathan Lott is confused. His wife has left him for a woman and he doesn't like living alone. Is it true that an about-to-be-divorced man in possession of a good fortune is in need of a new wife? Would Penny Collins do, divorced herself, school teacher and frustrated artist? What about beautiful Anna, ...Show more
Coolibah Creek by Kelsey Neilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Bec Roberts and her husband Andy are passionate about their beloved Coolibah Creek station. Hence their devastation as a savage drought ravages their property and stock start to die around them...Bec is also worried about her best friend and neighbour, Maggie O'Donnell, who is married to a bullying and ...Show more
Arcadia by Iain Pears
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds. He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes J ...Show more
Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories by Amy Bloom
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the short story form. Here, her brilliance shines across two decades and more than twenty-five stories. From the bereaved widow who finds unexpected comfort in 'Sleepwalking', to the matchmaking shrink in 'Psychoanalysis Changed My Life'; from the teenage ...Show more
Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Budd ...Show more
Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
This book was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize 2015. Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix From below-the-belt base to the topnotch; I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch when the tales overrun, run offensive, ...Show more
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In the late 80s, Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF. Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life. By the age of nineteen Katherine has lost her mother to cancer, and feels her father to be an increasingly distant figure. Instead of going to college, ...Show more
The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley by Jeremy Massey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established--some say the best--funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out of his car, intending t ...Show more
Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A paying guest seems like a win-win proposition to the Joshi family. He s ready with the rent, he s willing to lend a hand when he can and he s happy to listen to Mrs Joshi on the imminent collapse of our culture. But he s also a man of mystery. He has no last name. He has no family, no friends, no hist ...Show more
Promise Seed by Moriarty, Cass
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An elderly man, living alone in the suburbs, thinks back on his life - the missed opportunities, the shocking betrayals, the rare moments of joy. When his ten-year-old neighbour hides in his garden one afternoon, they begin an unexpected friendship that offers a reprieve from their individual struggles. ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year by J M Coetzee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
All about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love. It takes the reader from Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay, from the meaning of dishonour to the creative truth of dreams. Author has lived in Australia since 2002 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. First published 2 ...Show more
Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness comes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors in 19th-century New York. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bri ...Show more