What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Literature
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
March by Geraldine Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tel ...Show more
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
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Category: Literature
Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the begi ...Show more
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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Category: Literature
In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college-aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, ...Show more
Transit (Outline trilogy #2) by Rachel Cusk
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Category: Literature
In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront asp ...Show more
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
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Category: Literature
A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies sold--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their ...Show more
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph' A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling story ...Show more
I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Literature
This extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother--and of both women's strength and resiliency--recounts Annie's attempt to first help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease and, then, when that proves futile, bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own e ...Show more
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the bestselling, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Memorial and Lot, a novel about two young men who grew up together, fell away from each other, and then collide again after a crisis... Growing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. T ...Show more
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect's Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize.One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announ ...Show more
Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
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Category: Literature
Hannan's Kokomo is a sharply observed novel of one woman's facade and how it falls; an undoing that is both ordinary and compelling. This debut heralds an exciting new Australian voice with a story of estrangement from kin, friendship, love, self and country - one that will be familiar to many, and surp ...Show more
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
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Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more