Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Stylish observation . Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial TimesIt is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is runnin ...Show more
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and the speed with which it spreads, the people of the county start to die in their thousands. A culture of terror and superstition quickly sweeps across the ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C K Stead
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Akhil Sharma's new collection is a remarkable achievement. These tender, elegant stories - each of which was first published in the New Yorker - all explore the unpredictability of human emotion. In the sleek, minimalist prose for which his prize-winning novel Family Life was acclaimed, Sharma skilfully ...Show more
The Secret Books by Marcel Theroux
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Seeking adventure, a young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of 19th century Paris.Travelling undercover in the mountains of British India, he discovers a manuscript that transforms the world's understanding of the historic ...Show more
Practical Magic: The Beloved Novel of Love, Friendship, Sisterhood and Magic (Practical Magic 1) by Alice Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Practical Magic Ser.
"From one of the most captivating storytellers in American fiction comes a tale of two sisters, Gillian and Sally Owens, brought up by their two elderly guardian aunts in a world of spells and exotica. As the magical charm of their childhood wears away, they escape from this mystical mayhem -one by runn ...Show more
The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal following three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal) "A masterfully crafted novel . . . Comic, violent, and moving in equal measure." --John Irving "As ...Show more
The Secret Wife by Gill Paul
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world's greatest mysteries ...Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri, but ...Show more
The Blind Giant is Dancing by Stephen Sewell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Plays Ser.
Brutality in the workplace, rage in the streets, seething in the home. The vulnerability of political parties when they've forgotten why they're there. The intellectual torpor of modern Australia. How power corrupts. The Blind Giant is Dancing is an angry and tender depiction of an idealist, Allen Fitzg ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale (HB) by Margaret Atwood
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Now a Hulu Original Series The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social ...Show more
Blow-up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the stories hereâ including "Blow Up," on which Antonioni based his filmâ Cortá zar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious.