Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe: navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the ...Show more
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo - A Novel by Michael David Lukas
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this "wonderfully rich" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the author of the internationally bestselling The Oracle of Stamboul, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. "This book is a joy."--Rabih Alameddine, author of the National Book Award finalist ...Show more
Loop Tracks by Sue Orr
$38.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It’s 2019: Charlie’s tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy’s first girlfrie ...Show more
They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition by George Takei; Justin Eisinger; Steven Scott; Harmony Becker
$50.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novel
George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire fam ...Show more
Three Rooms by Jo Hamya
$48.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Cool, sharp and perceptive.' Stylist 'I was bowled over by this barbed, supple book...spiky, unsettling.' OLIVIA LAING What is the true cost of living as a young person in 21st-century England? It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into a rented room in university accommodation, ready to begin a j ...Show more
Think of Me by Frances Liardet
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be Brave When I open my eyes I see a small dark shape at the end of the pew under the window. A piece of cloth, a handkerchief perhaps? No, a woman’s headscarf. The blue is bright, Mediterranean. I can’ ...Show more
Brunswick Street Blues by Sally Bothroyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the inaugural ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize. The twists keep piling up in this fun and distinctively Australian debut mystery, perfect for readers of The Thursday Murder Club and Janet Evanovich. Brick Brown has a problem: she hates her day job, and her beloved Uncle Baz has gone missing. ...Show more
Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight by Steven Carroll
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
From one of our finest writers - winner of the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award - comes a wistful and emotional story that imagines a happier ending for the mercurial and complicated Vivienne Haigh-Wood, first wife of the great poet, TS Eliot. Londo ...Show more
All She Wants by Kelli Hawkins
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Ask no questions. Tell no lies. The utterly compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Other People's Houses Lindsay just wants to be a mother. And when she discovers her partner is leaving her for another woman, her dreams are left in tatters. He was her last chance at a family ... or was he ...Show more
Mother's Boy by Patrick Gale
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, due to a charming wickedness alongside deeper observations' Irish Times Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Diane Williams by Diane Williams; Ben Marcus (Introduction by)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
With over three hundred new and previously published short stories as well as three novellas, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together distilled works of "unsettling brilliance" (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of American short fiction. From Ben Marcus' introduction to The Col ...Show more