A Touch of Mistletoe by Barbara Comyns
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Our mother rather lost interest in us after the thirst got hold of her and, although our grandfather was vaguely fond of us, he certainly wasn't interested.'
The Messenger: TV Tie-In by Markus Zusak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
"SOON TO BE AN ABC DRAMA MINISERIES From the author of the international bestseller The Book Thief and new novel Bridge of Clay. ""comedic, romantic, thrilling, confronting, playful, deceptive"" Australian Book Review Meet Ed Kennedy - cab driving prodigy, pathetic card player and useless at sex (self-p ...Show more
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
$25.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These. 'Perfect short stories.' Anne Enright'Breath-taking.' Irish Times'Her stories are as good as Chekhov.' David Mitchell A writer alone at a retreat is faced with an unwelcome visitor. A priest seeks solace from a romanti ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
"Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize.It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry, who joined the League i ...Show more
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the authorWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to hi ...Show more
Ghost Music: From the author of the stylish cult hit Braised Pork by An Yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A pianist in Beijing must find a way to the life she really wants, in this atmospheric new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Braised Pork When Song Yan's mother-in-law moves into the apartment she shares with her new husband Bowen, their carefully calibrated life is overturned. Family secret ...Show more
A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller. 'More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, Alex Miller examines the emotional contradictions inhe ...Show more
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An effervescent, punchy, piercingly funny novel exploring the fall of Robert Mugabe from Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and ...Show more
Girl in a Pink Dress by Kylie Needham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Can one relationship survive two ambitious artists? Frances is an artist in her forties living a quiet life in a remote mountain town in NSW, far away from the glittering lights and famous personalities of the Sydney art world she once knew. When an invitation arrives from a former lover to attend his ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where s ...Show more
On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Annette Higgs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard- ...Show more
Judas Boys by Joel Deane
$27.95 AUD
Category: Literature
The long-awaited new novel from award-winning Australian writer, Joel Deane.What happens when the future falls as dark as your past? When all that you have seduced and betrayed, rises up to drown you. Pat Pinnock is about to find out.Pinnock is a Judas Boy — a private schoolboy gone to seed. He's lost h ...Show more