Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Clock in for a night shift - and for a moving multi-perspective novel about an exploited workforce. 'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labour market' Elif Batuman, author of The ...Show more
First Year ( 2024 Vogel Award Winner) by Kristina Ross
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At seventeen, Maeve is naively single-minded about pursuing a life in the theatre. After a rigorous audition process, she secures a position at one of the most competitive drama schools in the country. Leaving behind the security of her childhood home in Queensland, Maeve moves to Melbourne and devotes ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Toibin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Eilis Lacey Ser.
'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' The Times'A masterful novel full of longing and regret... Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' Douglas StuartLong Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to ...Show more
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
They knew each other because their families knew each other - had known each other, for a long time. Elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny, Henry Henry is a compelling portrait of privilege, inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new literary talent. London, 2014. Hal Lancaster - twenty-two, ...Show more
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO BELONG? On the precipice of Y2K, unpaid intern Lily Chen is attempting to live the American dream in New York City. But her scientist parents imagined so much more for her when they fled Mao's cultural revolution, hoping for a better life. Despite the glamour of her media job, Lil ...Show more
Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work. Ghost Cities - inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China - follows multiple narratives, including one in whi ...Show more
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helen ...Show more
Godwin by Joseph O'Neill
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The return of Joseph O’Neill, with a story on the scale of the international phenomenon Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with ...Show more
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
$25.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy
'I loved this novel's brain and heart'DAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF CLOUD ATLAS'A first-rate speculative thriller, by turns fascinating, brutal, powerful, and redemptive'JEFF VANDERMEER, AUTHOR OF ANNIHILATIONThere are creatures in the water of Con Dao.To the locals, they're monsters.To the corporate owners ...Show more
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun Li June ...Show more
Going Home by Tom Lamont
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I will never forget these characters: so pained and funny, so brilliantly drawn, wrestled with and forgiven'HELEN GARNERBoy-made-good Teo Erskine is back in the north London suburb of his youth, visiting his father - stubborn, selfish, complicated Vic. Things have changed for Teo: he's got a steady job ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells ...Show more