Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. ...Show more
Collisions: Fictions Of The Future:An Anthology Of Australian Writers OfColour by Leah Jing McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This collection of short stories showcases some of the best work that Australian literature has to offer in this new decade. Featuring work from both emerging and established writers of colour, the stories in Collisions transcend genre and experiment with style. They are necessary reading for everybody ...Show more
To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. In the other direction come ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
The End of the Day by Bill Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The second novel from Booker-longlisted Bill Clegg Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a profoundly moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of family and friendship. The End of the Day is ...Show more
Where The Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen shores. Spanning four generations, with a focus on the 1960s and 70s, an era of rapid social change and burgeoning Aboriginal rights, Where the Fruit Falls is a re-imagining of the ...Show more
Mrs. de Winter by Susan Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
REBECCA was Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel. Countless readers wondered: what happened next? Out of fire-wracked ruins of Manderley, would love and renewal rise phoenix-like from the ashes of the embittered past? Married to the sophisticated, wordly-wise Maxim, the second Mrs de Win ...Show more
Heiress on Fire by Kellie McCourt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
After accidentally blowing up her husband, can Indigo get back on her four-inch heels? In this madcap debut, One for the Money meets Crazy Rich Asians with a little Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries thrown in. The marriage of Aussie billion-heiress Indigo-Daisy-Violet-Amber Hasluck-Royce-Jones-Bombberg to ...Show more
Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
By the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might b ...Show more
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home comes an electrifying novel that traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries--feminine and masculine, East and West, past and present--to reveal the full spectrum of our ...Show more
The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Part mystery and part drama, Meyerson uses a complex family dynamic in The Bookshop of Yesterdays to spotlight the importance of truth and our need for forgiveness." --Associated Press A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about fami ...Show more
The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun; Lizzie Buehler (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A satirical Korean eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility. Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she ...Show more