Second Place by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships. A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and lands ...Show more
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, petty criminal. He is a smooth-talker with rakish charm and an eye for a good game. He is many things, but he is not a murderer. ...Show more
An Island by Karen Jennings
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiled himself from the known world only to find himself called to the service of others, themselves exiled from the world by cruelty and circumstance. It is on these grounds that this writer deftly construct ...Show more
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted - Booker Prize 2021 From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality. It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpect ...Show more
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I've been trying to tell everybody I know about Mary Lawson... Each of her novels is just a marvel' ANNE TYLER Clara's sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose, had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' effo ...Show more
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryPicked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday Times and a finalist for the Booker Prize. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to sear ...Show more
The Fortune Men (HB) by Nadifa Mohamed
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer. So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes ...Show more
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
What price do we pay for freedom? In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner, G ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
1929. At a farm in Punjab, northern India, three girls are married to three brothers in one ceremony. For weeks afterwards, segregated from the men in the 'china room', heavily veiled, and meeting their husbands only under cover of darkest night, none of the girls is entirely sure which brother is hers. ...Show more
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freed ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two te ...Show more