Play the Monster Blind by Lynn Coady
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exhilarating collection of short fiction, "Play the Monster Blind" showcases the remarkably original voice of Lynn Coady, the award-winning author of "Strange Heaven." Funny, poignant and smart, full of unforgettable characters, these stories explore the violence of family, the constraints of small-t ...Show more
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A "rich, sometimes heartbreaking" (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to ...Show more
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Our contemporary master Stewart O'Nan - the king of the quotidian - has changed his brush stroke and given us a picture of another American master, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the last years of his life. This is an amazing book, by one great writer about another, just an amazement.' --Elizabeth Strout, aut ...Show more
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnightincludes an introduction by A.L. Kennedy in Penguin Modern Classics. In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is tea ...Show more
Jack and Harry: No Turning Back by Tony McKenna; Mervyn Davis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The happy routine life of two Perth boys is shattered one November day in 1950 when they are falsely accused of theft. With fabricated evidence mounting against them they decide to run away from their homes and families to avoid prosecution and pooling their meager pocket money they back the winner of t ...Show more
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, whi ...Show more
The Return: The 'captivating and deeply moving' Number One bestseller by Victoria Hislop
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain, from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND. Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the ...Show more
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither. He discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo trains him in t ...Show more
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of ...Show more
Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An incredible debut novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders, 'full of daring, authenticity and wit' (Rachel Cusk). 'The milkman found her. On Prince Philip Playing Fields. He crossed the dew-soaked grass toward what he took to be a bundle of clothes, but then ...Show more
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'What if the man who invented chemical weapons was also a grandfather, and what if his great-grandchildren grew up to be three hilarious, introverted, deeply-haunted sisters? And what if those sisters co-wrote a fascinating, funny, and deeply sad 350-page suicide note? Then you'd have A REUNION OF GHOST ...Show more
Bird's Child by Sandra Leigh Price
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A unique, rich and evocative of novel of love, birds, magic and revenge. Sydney, 1929: Three people find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss Du Maurier's bohemian boarding house in a once grand terrace in Newtown. Ari is a young Jewish man, a pogrom orphan, who lives under the stern rule of his ra ...Show more