The Gift of Speed by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia and Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled. If, like his heroes, he has the gift of speed, he will move beyond his suburb into the great world... As his summer unfolds, Michael realises that there are other ways to live.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
WINNER OF THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE An epic, searing satire by Sri Lanka's coolest author. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who k ...Show more
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. His first novel in 12 years, The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis at his inimitable best.
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more
This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, who is descending into dementia. A pai ...Show more
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
The Song of Achilles: The 10th Anniversary edition of the Women's Prize-winning bestseller by Madeline Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into so ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A novel to savour'SUNDAY TIMES'A vital storyteller'ALI SMITHAfter years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sis ...Show more
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS.'Here, Ariadne takes centre stage in a lyrical, insightful re-telling that explores her motivations and emotions and the grievances caused by grumpy, ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a c ...Show more