The Good Women of Fudi by Liu Hong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Imperial China meets Edwardian England in this epic story of loves lost and gained, set during the aftermath of the Opium Wars. Best friends Jiali and Wu Fang know that no man is a match for them. In their small harbour town of Fudi, they practise sword fighting, write couplets to one another, and strut ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Eventful, atmospheric, deliciously complex' New York Times 'Elegant and highly accomplished . . . dangerously readable . . . If only all novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature' The Guardian'A literary potboiler about love, obsession, professional rivalry between intimates and ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Messed-up families, scandalous love affairs, art, life, death and the great state of Florida in one delicious, darkly funny package. Kristen Arnett is a wickedly talented and a wholly original voice' Jami Attenberg 'There's a gunslinger cool to every sentence . . . Kristen Arnett is the queen of the Fl ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A big-hearted, compassionate novel about three generations of women preparing for a living wake - from award-winning poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. When she decides she wants a living wake - a party to bring her family and communit ...Show more
Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist. Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss f ...Show more
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A stunning collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a vivid fabulism and rich sense of place.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, ...Show more
Moon Road by Sarah Leipciger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An estranged couple meet again after twenty years for a roadtrip across Canada in search of their lost daughter. For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver Beautifully observed portrait of marriage, divorce and reconciliation as an estranged couple go on a road trip to uncover a family myster ...Show more
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to reco ...Show more