Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
I'd tell him everything, about my mother, about Jean Borand, about the apartment near the Bois de Boulogne, and about the girl they used to call Little Jewel...The same terrifying panic that came over me in the street and woke me with a start at five in the morning. One day in the corridors of the metro ...Show more
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Late at night, long ago, when I was about to turn twenty-one, I was crossing Place des Pyramides on my way to Place de la Concorde when a car appeared suddenly from out of the darkness. At first I thought it had just grazed me, then I felt a sharp pain from my ankle to my knee...In the opening scene of ...Show more
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This book was nominated for the 2014 National Book Awards Audiobook of the year. Man at the Helm, the debut novel from Nina Stibbe - the much-loved author of Love, Nina - is a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about the horrors of being an attractive divorcee in an English village in the 1970s, ...Show more
Please Don't Leave Me Here by Tania Chandler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A riveting psychological thriller Kurt Cobain stands at the top of the stairs, wearing the brown sweater. 'Please don't leave me,' she yells up at him. But it's too late; he's turning away as the tram slows for the stop out on the street. Then she's lying on the road. Car tyres are going past, slowly. S ...Show more
R&R by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
John 'Nashville' Grant is an American military policeman in the RR town of Vung Tau, tucked safely behind the front lines of the Vietnam War. Nashville knows how everything works: the army, the enemy, bars, secrets, men and women. He's keeping the peace by keeping his head down and making the most of it ...Show more
A Clue to the Exit by Edward St. Aubyn
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel - about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addi ...Show more
On the Edge by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known. Such is his desire for her that he overturns his whole life - his disillusioned merchant-banker's life - and leaves everything behind, not caring that his lover is of no fixed address, nor that his search for her will take him to the beatin ...Show more
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Heart-rending and heart-warming . . . for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.' Jim CraceAndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her ...Show more
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Mieville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy
A highly anticipated collection of short fiction listed in the Guardian's 'Essential Literary Calendar' for 2015 from one of the most exciting and original authors writing today. The multi-award-winning China Mieville has been called 'the equal of David Mitchell or Zadie Smith' (Scotland on Sunday), who ...Show more
One Hundred Days of Happiness by Fausto Brizzi
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? For Lucio Battistini, it's a chance to spend the rest of his life the way he always should have - by making every moment count. Womanizing, imperfect, but loveable, Lucio Battistini has been thrown out of the house by his wife and is slee ...Show more
Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The basis for the major motion picture"5 Flights Up"starring Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman. New York City is on high alert a gasoline truck is stuck in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled. Through panic and gridlock, Alex and Ruth must transport their beloved old dachshund whose back legs are s ...Show more
An Ordinary Epidemic by Amanda Hickie
$28.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'An Ordinary Epidemic is a bravely told story of one woman's courage despite terrible odds.' Nancy Freund, author of Rapeseed Hannah is stuck in the middle of a deadly outbreak. As Sydney goes into lockdown, she attempts to quarantine her home and protect her family from the alarming infection around th ...Show more