The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a Cambridge nursing home, until the fateful day when he is lured into King's College chapel by the otherworldly sound of an organ. There he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether and her privileged, e ...Show more
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The mesmerising new novel from the acclaimed author of The Bellwether Revivals: a rich and immersive story of love, obsession, creativity and disintegration. On a forested island off the coast of Istanbul stands Portmantle, a gated refuge for beleaguered artists. There, a curious assembly of painters, a ...Show more
The Lost Swimmer by Ann Turner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Rebecca Wilding, an archaeology professor, makes sense of the past for a living. But suddenly, truth and certainty are turning against her. Rebecca is accused of serious fraud, and worse, she suspects - she knows - that her husband, Stephen, is having an affair. Desperate to find answers, Rebecca leaves ...Show more
Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A delectable comedy of manners. "Boston Globe" The Ridolfi are a Florentine family of long lineage and little money. It is 1955, Italy is still struggling back after the war, and the family, like its decrepit villa and farm, has seen better days. Among the Ridolfi, only eighteen-year-old Chiara shows an ...Show more
Greenville by Dale Peck
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this novel based on real events, Dale Peck takes on the childhood of his father, Dale Peck Sr. Raised in poverty with seven brothers and sisters in suburban Long Island, terrorized by an abusive mother, Dale Sr.'s life changes when his alcoholic father dumps him at his uncle's dairy farm in upstate N ...Show more
Kristin Lavransdatter (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Omnibus by Sigrid Undset
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and relig ...Show more
Mischief: Fay Weldon Selects Her Best Short Stories by Fay Weldon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'She's a Queen of Words' CAITLIN MORAN. 'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' HARPER'S BAZAAR. 'Readable, articulate and fascinating' THE SCOTSMAN. 'Outrageously funny' DAILY EXPRESS. 'Sharp, witty, incisive' THE TIMES. 'Wise, knowing, forthright' INDEPENDENT. Reviewers have been des ...Show more
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Renowned through four award-winning books for his gritty and revelatory visions of the Caribbean, Bob Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before sweeping across time and continents to unravel tangled knots of romance, espionage, and vengeance. In riveting prose, Shacochis ...Show more
The Painter by Deputy Director Fiscal Affairs Department Peter Heller (IMF)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
An Oprah.com "Must-Read" Book After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life. . . until the day that he comes across a hunting guide beating a small horse, ...Show more
Left of the Bang by Claire Lowdon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Daringly, radically honest and very, very funny, this is the best novel yet about the 'lost generation' of young Londoners today. Left of the bang: a military term for the build-up to an explosion. For failing concert pianist Tamsin Jarvis, the pressure is mounting. She thought she was happy with her ad ...Show more
The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Escape into this hugely enjoyable, big-hearted and beautifully written novel, set in Vallerosa, a European country you've never heard of before. FIND YOURSELF IN VALLEROSA, A PLACE LOST IN TIME Vallerosa is every tourist's dream - a tiny, picturesque country surrounded by lush valleys and verdant mounta ...Show more
Forever Young by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The latest novel by acclaimed novelist Steven Carroll, winner of the Prime Minister's Award and the Miles Franklin Award. 'And is nostalgia not so much a longing for a place or a time, as a longing for youth itself?' Forever Young is set against the tumultuous period of change and uncertainty that was A ...Show more