How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a powerful, original and haunting debut: hard to put down and impossible to forget. I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my medication. Empty nest syndrome, he tells his friends at the pub, his mother. He' ...Show more
Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Taking us back to the world and characters of his acclaimed masterpiece, 2666, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished, novel. When Oscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has no idea where it will lead. More than ...Show more
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever read. Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conv ...Show more
Ten Things I've Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a uniquely heart-wrenching and life-affirming novel for fathers and daughters everywhere. Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and returns to the family home only just in time to say goodbye. Daniel hasn't had ...Show more
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in ...Show more
The Sunshine Years by Afsaneh Knight
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Do you ever wonder where your life is going? Do you worry that you might wake up in the morning and suddenly be old? You are not alone. Story (that's his name) can feel a middle-youth - or is that middle-age? - crisis coming on. He's got a great job, a great flat, and great mates: Mac, who is obsessed w ...Show more
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, 11-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are fascinated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect contraband copies of Life magazine and Bob Dylan cassettes. So when Saba finds herself abandoned, alone with her father in Ira ...Show more
Grace Grows by Shelle Sumners
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A wonderfully upbeat and quirky romance in which a young textbook editor in New York, who takes herself a little too seriously, falls for a singer-songwriter who appears to take nothing at all seriously...Like many young women, Grace Barnum's life is precariously balanced on sensible choices and uncomfo ...Show more
The City of Devi by Manil Suri
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dystopia like no other, Manil Suri paints a vibrant portrait of an India on the brink of collapse, two figures travelling across the unknown in a world scarily close to the modern day. Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclea ...Show more
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately d ...Show more
Little Known Facts: A Novel by Christine Sneed
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The debut novel from award-winning writer Christine Sneed: A many-layered story of fame, family and identity. Life as one of Hollywood's most handsome, charismatic and critically-acclaimed movie stars seems like a glitzy fairytale to the people who orbit around Renn Ivins. But for his grown children, A ...Show more
Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: Stories by Christine Sneed
$16.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never fully weighed. People leap and almost always land on rocky ground. May-December romances flo ...Show more