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The Empress Lover by Linda Jaivin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine...' Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund Backhouse is a man of many parts. A polyglot scholar. An effete homosexual. A genius of perversity, a forger, arms salesman, occasional spy and fantasist. Also, if he is to be believed, th ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together w ...Show more
The Yield by Tara June Winch
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2020. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2020. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020. Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually. The Yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the lang ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...Show more
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship. A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she ru ...Show more
Trio by William Boyd
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, wit ...Show more
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. 'A triumph. A brutal, hilarious, compassionate triumph.' Alison Bell, The ...Show more
Memorial by Bryan Washington
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese-American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the me ...Show more
The Abstainer by Ian McGuire
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the widely acclaimed author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and obsession set in 19th century Manchester 'The Abstainer is truly terrific - a can't-put-down book. It's no less than a tight 'n spare 'n suspense-filled noir novel, masterfully set in 1860s Britain and America. And l ...Show more
Troy by Stephen Fry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
Following Top Ten bestsellers Mythos and Heroes, this third volume retells the epic tale of Troy The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whol ...Show more
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound meditation on life, death, and lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the reb ...Show more