The Artist's Portrait by Julie Keys
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: 1920 Sydney ; Richelle Prize ;
A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn't her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an unfriendly woman who sprays her with a hose as she passes by. When they do talk: Murie ...Show more
The Upside (FTI) by Abdel Sellou
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie Les Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke records as one of the most successful French movies ...Show more
Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father. Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his r ...Show more
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (FTI) by Maria Semple
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Film tie in
To her Microsoft- guru husband, Bernadette is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private- school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15- year- old Bee, she's a best friend and, simply, Mom. Bee has aced her report card and claimed her ...Show more
The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat #4) by Joanne Harris
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Chocolat
The compelling new novel from the author of the bestselling Chocolat. Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is ...Show more
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An NPR Best Book of the Year A Most Anticipated Book atTime Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Elle, BUST, HuffPost, NYLON, Southern Living, Parade, and more From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the ...Show more
The Sparkle Pages by Meg Bignell
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Is marriage just a series of texts about where the children are and whether we need milk until one of you dies?? Susannah Parks - wife, mother, cleaner of surfaces and runner of household - is a viola virtuoso. Except she hasn't picked up a viola for over a decade. She has, however, picked up a lot o ...Show more
Invented Lives PB by Andrea Goldsmith
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still ... It is the mid-1980s. In Australia, stay-at-home wives jostle with want-it-all feminists, while AIDS threatens the sexual freedom of everyone. On the other side of the world, the Soviet bloc is in turmoil. Mikhail Gorbachev ha ...Show more
The Aunt's House by Elizabeth Stead
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sydney, 1942.Recently orphaned, Angel Martin moves into a boarding house populated by an assortment of eccentric and colourful characters. She?s befriended by the gregarious Winifred Varnham - a vision in exotic fabrics - and the numerically gifted Barnaby Grange. But not everyone is kind and her scrimp ...Show more
Dig by A. S. King
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Only a generation removed from being Pennsylvania potato farmers, property developers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings now sit atop a seven-figure bank account--wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or teenage grandchildren. 'Because we want them to thrive,' Marla always says. What do ...Show more
Halibut on the Moon by David Vann
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis etranger winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his brother Gary, who intends ...Show more
The Baby by Marie Darrieussecq
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Baby is a mother's project and a writer's project-how to reconcile these two demanding roles? What is a baby? And why are there so few of them in literature? Through notes taken in the months after her first child was born, Darrieussecq, in her characteristically ingenious style, makes observations ...Show more