Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views by Matteo Pericoli
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fifty of the world’s greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity, and the meaning of home All of us, at some point in our daily lives, have found ourselves looking out the window. We pause in our work, tune out of a c ...Show more
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe."Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. Wh ...Show more
Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animalsis a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers. 'The most original, surprising and inspired book I read this year.' Stephen Romei, Weekend Australian Perhaps only the animals can tell ...Show more
Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
For fans of HBO's Girls, Abigail Ulman's heartbreakingly tender and often darkly funny fiction is a fresh take on the experiences of contemporary young women."A familiar yet highly inventive collection of short fiction which hits virtually all my buttons: dark humor, complex female characters, and a str ...Show more
Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by Jonathan Odell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in 1950s Mississippi, this is the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida - one wealthy and white and the other poor and black - who have only two things in common: the devastating loss of their children, and a deep and abiding loathing for one another. Embittered and distrusting, Vida is harasse ...Show more
If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a heartfelt and wondrous debut lauded by Philipp Meyer (New York Times bestselling author of The Son) as "astonishing", introducing a supremely gifted and exciting new voice in fiction. Will has never been to the outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to k ...Show more
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And y ...Show more
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or i ...Show more
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a dark and powerful debut novel set in the hardscrabble American heartlands. 'If I knew for a certain'ty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life...' After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old ...Show more
I Am Radar by Reif Larsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents. His name is Radar Radmanovic. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists, he is soon forced to confront the true nature of his identity. Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled wi ...Show more
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. It was the winner of the Encore Award. It is longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It is longlisted for the Impac Prize. Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerou ...Show more
Anchor Point by Alice Robinson
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian
As her parents clash over unwashed dishes and unlit fires, ten-year-old Laura works hard to keep the household running. When her mother disappears into the bush, Laura finds a farewell note and makes an impulsive decision that alters the course of her family's life. Despite her anger and grief, Laura he ...Show more