Pure Hollywood - And Other Stories by Christine Schutt
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pure Hollywood is pure gold." - Ottessa MoshfeghThe sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, National Book Award finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt.In one eponymous novella and ten stories, Pure Hollywood brings us into pr ...Show more
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Its 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders- When did the sadness start? And could it be that u ...Show more
Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami
$4.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress's uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she's a ...Show more
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, an achingly profound internationally-bestselling love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually moving in the opposite direction. Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or l ...Show more
You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the global sensation Cat Person comes You Know You Want This, a compulsive short story collection about sex, dating and modern life that will thrill you before it chills you.You Know You Want Thisis about the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it is about the horrors that a ...Show more
Trompe L'Oeil by Nancy Reisman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
During a vacation in Rome, the Murphy family experiences a life-altering tragedy. In the immediate aftermath, James, Nora, and their children find solace in their Massachusetts coast home, but as the years pass the weight of the loss disintegrates the increasingly fragile marriage and leaves its mark on ...Show more
Certain American States by Catherine Lacey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Named a Summer Read byVanity Fair, The Guardian,Nylon, Bustleand Literary Hub One ofGranta's Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting Award-winning author ofThe Answers, showcases her literary style in short fiction withCertain American States, a collection of stories about ordinary ...Show more
Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique - which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon - until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working ...Show more
Work Like Any Other: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 by Virginia Reeves
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and JM Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s. Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start ...Show more
The Bear and The Nightingale: (Winternight Trilogy #1) by Katherine Arden
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Winternight Trilogy Ser.
** Voted Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2017 **'Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.'In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the ye ...Show more
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A big-hearted, captivating, modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice, with hijabs instead of top hats and kurtas instead of corsets. AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been overtaken by a demanding teaching job. Her boisterous Muslim family, and numerous (interfering) auntie ...Show more
The Wanderers by Tim Pears
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\West Country Trilogy Ser.
Condition: **NEW** In the powerful second novel in Tim Pears' acclaimed West Country trilogy, two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in England before World War I.