I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti
$23.00 AUD
$23.95 (3% off)
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Viareggio-Repaci Prize, I'm Not Scaredis a devastatingly authentic portrayal of childhood. One relentless summer, while the adults shelter indoors, six children explore the scorched wheatfields that surround their tiny community in the Italian countryside. But when the gang chances on a tu ...Show more
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. He in ...Show more
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain...' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells ...Show more
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road. But there he picks up Pozzi, a hitchhiking gambler, and is drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and reclusive millionaires.
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar, the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability ...Show more
The Gospel According to Luke by Emily Maguire
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Aggie Grey is a jaded sexual health counsellor who finds herself having to defend her business against the attacks of a radical new fundamentalist sect. Pastor Luke Butler is young, idealistic and out to capture the hearts and minds of Sydney's disaffected youth; his first order of business is to shut d ...Show more
The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
London, 1826: Gabriel Swift has left behind his father's failures to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurre ...Show more
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 7
Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and ...Show more
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married several times, she has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel the first ravages of age, she wants to find a new sense of meaning. She leaves her lover Yolo on a journey down the Colorado River - a journey that will f ...Show more
Love Without Hope by Rodney Hall
$22.95 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: Fiction
The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her committed to an insane asylum. The time is 1982; the place, a country town in NSW. Th ...Show more
Miss Webster and Cherif by Patricia Duncker
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Webster is a spinster pushing seventy. Forced out of her teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue and dogmatic opinions on everyone in the English village of Little Blessington. Then, one night, she grinds to a dead halt. To recover from this illness, she travels to North Africa where she ...Show more
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad ...Show more