Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: Literature
Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats... We spurred each other on till we reached a crescendo of pain and we retired exhaused to ou ...Show more
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Literature
From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories represents some of Margaret Atwood's most witty, wise short stories.Discover this sharp, funny short story collection from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsA man finds himse ...Show more
Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Ted Goossen)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"How can a person resist?"--The Paris Review Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny. From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight st ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
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Category: Literature
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
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Category: Literature
Oscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. When the two finally mee ...Show more
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Literature | Series: Marquez 2014
Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. 'An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its for ...Show more
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Literature
"Just before dawn one winter s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea- Gibreel Farishta, India s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beac ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literature
A special hardback edition of Murakami's classic love story, Sputnik Sweetheart. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a n ...Show more
Storyland by Catherine McKinnon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'This land is a forever land. The clock ticks to a different time.'Set on the banks of Lake Illawarra and spanning four centuries, Storyland is a remarkable and moving novel about who we are and our connection to this land.Telling the stories of five very different people, Storyland weaves together a co ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Category: Literature
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Literature
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she l ...Show more
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
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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