Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier; Ravi Mirchandani (Editor); Sarah Castleton (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe's biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Li ...Show more
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The MaddAddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some r ...Show more
The Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An irresistible story that takes readers right into the lives of twelve different women, each with varied pasts and secrets.
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND RED by Dostoyevsky Fyodor
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Ang ...Show more
Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Gin, the albino, marries to escape the confines of an asylum. Toad, a small man who wears corsets, marries to prove his manhood. Together they are freaks—feared and ridiculed by the remote farming community in which they live. Then into their lives come two Italian POWs bringing music, sensuality and a ...Show more
Equator: A Novel by Wayne Ashton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
1947. Carlos slips over the orphanage wall in search of the village girl who has captured his heart. From that moment, his is a life at sea, a life that moves across the globe and across generations, lived on the turning tides of love affairs, friendships and enmities. Equator is a glorious and intricat ...Show more
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days ...Show more
Hell's Corner by David Baldacci
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Camel Club Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Camel Club returns in the breathtaking follow up to "Divine Justice" from the number one international bestselling author. On the night of the State Dinner honouring the British Prime Minister, Oliver Stone witnesses an explosion as the motorcade leaves the White House. A bomb has been detonated in ...Show more
The Five Greatest Warriors (Jack West Junior #3) by Matthew Reilly
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Jack West Junior | Reading Level: good
IT BEGAN WITH SIX STONES. Jack West Jr and his loyal team are in desperate disarray: they've been separated, their mission is in tatters, and Jack was last seen plummeting down a fathomless abyss. IT FINISHES HERE. After surviving his deadly fall, Jack must now race against his many enemies to locate an ...Show more
Mefisto by John Banville
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Fable, intellectual thriller, Gothic extravaganza, symbolist conundrum ...a true work of art' - "Sunday Independent". Is there a numerical solution to the quest for the meaning of life? A brilliant reworking of the classic Dr Faustus theme, "Mefisto" focuses on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, w ...Show more
The Thief of Time by John Boyne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother's brutal murder. H ...Show more
Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-gro ...Show more