Crossing Over by Daryl Joyce
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The third son of a farmer, born in the small town of Kooweerup in rural Victoria during the Second World War, author Daryl Joyce was a sensitive Australian boy who realized there was life beyond his parents' farm. In Crossing Over, he narrates his story as he found his way in the world, navigating all o ...Show more
All I Love and Know by Judith Frank
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For years, Matthew Greene and Daniel Rosen have enjoyed a contented domestic life in Northampton, Massachusetts. But when Daniel's twin brother and sister-in-law are killed in a Jerusalem bombing, their lives are suddenly, utterly transformed.The deceased couple has left behind two young children, and t ...Show more
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves ...Show more
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As a little girl Stephen Gordon always felt different. A talent for sport, a hatred of dresses and a preference for solitude was not considered suitable for a young lady of the Victorian upper-class. But when Stephen grows up and falls passionately in love with another woman, her standing in the county ...Show more
Beneath the Earth by John Boyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to prote ...Show more
Fortune Smiles - Stories by Adam Johnson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Karen Jay Fowler.'Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are completely gripping.' Sunday Times 'Ironic, witty, ...Show more
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. A ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who s ...Show more
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breatht ...Show more
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Howard Jacobson, one of Britain's greatest ...Show more
Stories from Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the little-known history of horrifying events that occurred on 1 January 1915 in the Australian out ...Show more