The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is shortlisted for the 2013 National Book Awards UK Author of the Year. One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from ...Show more
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
His whole nation is celebrating what is the worst day of his life. Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he's a hero. Billy and the rest of Bravo Company were filmed defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious firefight. Now Bravo's three minutes of extreme bravery is a YouTube sensation and ...Show more
She Rises: A Novel by Kate Worsley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sarah Waters meets Carol Birch in a breathtaking story of love, adventure and identity. It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairymaid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember - after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered w ...Show more
Before I Burn by Gaute Heivoll
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the late 1970s, a pyromaniac runs amok in rural Norway. As homes are burnt to cinders, panic spreads as neighbours wonder who amongst them could cause such fear and anguish. Born in to this chaos, Gaute Heivoll is indelibly linked to this disturbing time, and to the arsonist intent on such destructi ...Show more
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death ... A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1913 at the Pathe studio, before it was seen even by its director. A lowly seamstress, who makes the costumes she should be wearing, but believes her talent -and the secret she keeps too -will ...Show more
Flora by Gail Godwin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II.At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely ima ...Show more
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna. Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. Th ...Show more
Jacob's Folly by Rebecca Miller
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob is a peddler of knives, salt cellars and snuffboxes. Despite a disastrous teenage marriage, Jacob is determined to raise himself up in life, by whatever means he can. In twenty-first-century America, Jacob's life has twisted in ways he could never have imagined. But ev ...Show more
Lost Luggage by Jordi Punti
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol are four brothers - sons of the same father and four very different mothers, yet none of them knows of the others' existence. They live in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Barcelona. Their father, Gabriel Delacruz - a truck driver - abandoned them when ...Show more
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts learns that his mother has been the victim of a brutal attack by a man on their North Dakota reservation. Joe's mother is traumatized and afraid. She takes to her bed, and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police; meanwhile his father, a tribal ju ...Show more
The Night Rainbow by Claire King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is summer in the south of France, and Pea and her little sister Margot spend their days running free, inventing games in the meadow behind their house. But Pea has worries beyond her five and a half years. Her father has died in an accident, and her mother has just lost a baby. Maman is English, alre ...Show more
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wi ...Show more