The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
$9.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasti ...Show more
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
$23.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A vivid and passionate love story from the Booker Shortlisted author. The Map of Love is the story of two stories: two stories separated by a hundred years of history, two stories intricately intertwined. There is the story of Lady Anna Winterbourne who, recently widowed, travels to the Middle East in 1 ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
$7.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
$22.95 AUD
Category: Literature
It is 1943; billowing dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land.The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science holds the answers and that productivity is pat ...Show more
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
$19.98 AUD
Category: Literature
Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and for ...Show more
First Person by Richard Flanagan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined. Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung in the midd ...Show more
Lust by Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
"Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives, a slighted old man takes an elaborate and chilling revenge on his tormentor, a sculpture comes between a scheming wife and her put-upon husband . . . Lust highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, ...Show more
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothe ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
White Houses by Amy Bloom
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok. Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presiden ...Show more
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come...On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian Mc ...Show more
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and ...Show more