The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilli ...Show more
Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air, an outstanding new piece of story-telling, a tale of mystery and imagination laced with terror. It is a masterwork in the modern gothic tradition that ranges from Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Neil Gaiman and Sarah Perry. "Something has been let l ...Show more
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compulsive, note-perfect debut for fans of The Virgin Suicides and Picnic at Hanging Rock 'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with.' Tikka Molloy was eleven an ...Show more
Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
All the qualities that readers praised in The London Train are present in Clever Girl, Tessa Hadley's brilliant new novel. It follows the story of Stella, from her childhood as the daughter of a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s into the mysterious shallows of her middle age. The story is f ...Show more
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam' - Ali Smith Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, t ...Show more
PRIMARY COLORS by KLEIN JOE
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small Southern st ...Show more
Blackfish City - A Novel by Sam J. Miller
$20.00 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy
'Incisive and beautifully written . . . Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder' Ann Leckie, Hugo, Nebula and Clarke Award-winning author 'Sam Miller is a fiercely strong writer, and this book is a blast' Daryl Gregory, World Fantasy Award-winning author 'This is the kind ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE** Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First Worl ...Show more
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley- gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, howe ...Show more
Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass in Nasser's Egypt, so Ram and Font have to make do with a heady mixture of beer, vodka and whisky.
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab ma ...Show more