Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far from home; but, despite its tranquility and order, inside she is falling apart. Feeling adrift and unable to connect with ...Show more
Ghost Estate by John Connell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gerard McQuaid has been waiting for his start in life: his house, his girl, his land. And with rural Ireland being swept up by the Celtic Tiger and villages becoming towns, the electrician's moment has finally arrived. With the chance to run a big job, McQuaid finds himself on Birchview Manor, a decrepi ...Show more
His Other House by Sarah Armstrong
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'He was dismayed how readily he took to lying. He'd always thought of it as a decisive abandonment of the truth. Instead, he realised, it was simply a matter of one word slipping into the place of another.' Dr Quinn Davidson and his wife Marianna have endured years of unsuccessful IVF and several miscar ...Show more
Spoiled Brats by Simon Rich
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of love in The Last Girlfriend on Earth, Simon Rich's next book is another subject we can all relate to: parents and their kids. From the perils of raising an actual monster in Manhattan - it's pretty hard to find teachers who really understand the tale ...Show more
Power of Now (7CD Set) - Eckhart Tolle by Eckhart Tolle
$59.95 AUD
Category: Audio Books
Open yourself to the transforming experience of The Power of Now, the acclaimed bestseller by revolutionary spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, now in an audio program read by the author on compact disc. 7 audio-CDs
Hellgoing: Stories by Lynn Coady
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with th ...Show more
Play the Monster Blind by Lynn Coady
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exhilarating collection of short fiction, "Play the Monster Blind" showcases the remarkably original voice of Lynn Coady, the award-winning author of "Strange Heaven." Funny, poignant and smart, full of unforgettable characters, these stories explore the violence of family, the constraints of small-t ...Show more
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A "rich, sometimes heartbreaking" (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to ...Show more
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Our contemporary master Stewart O'Nan - the king of the quotidian - has changed his brush stroke and given us a picture of another American master, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the last years of his life. This is an amazing book, by one great writer about another, just an amazement.' --Elizabeth Strout, aut ...Show more
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnightincludes an introduction by A.L. Kennedy in Penguin Modern Classics. In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is tea ...Show more
Jack and Harry: No Turning Back by Tony McKenna; Mervyn Davis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The happy routine life of two Perth boys is shattered one November day in 1950 when they are falsely accused of theft. With fabricated evidence mounting against them they decide to run away from their homes and families to avoid prosecution and pooling their meager pocket money they back the winner of t ...Show more
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, whi ...Show more