Simpson Returns: A Novella by Wayne Macauley
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ninety years after they were thought to have died heroically in the Great War, the stretcher-bearer Simpson and his donkey journey through country Victoria, performing minor miracles and surviving on offerings left at war memorials. They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find ...Show more
Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently' Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn't believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie, her closest friend from university with whom s ...Show more
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her ...Show more
The Parade by Dave Eggers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halv ...Show more
Spring by Ali Smith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.
The Place on Dalhousie PB by Melina Marchetta
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'You look the type to break your father's heart.''Yeah, but he broke mine first.' When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years lat ...Show more
The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
What he experienced that day wasn't life-changing . . . It was life-making. Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village. From that moment, he is dete ...Show more
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this masterful debut novel, Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad delivers a sweeping, brilliantly crafted portrait of a young man's coming-of-age alongside the embattled development of a nation. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. In 1914 ...Show more
Machines Like Me and People Like You by Ian McEwan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, ...Show more
Machines Like Me (HB) by Ian McEwan
$43.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, ...Show more
The Volunteer by Salvatore Scibona
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, in the finest tradition of American storytelling.The year is 1966 and a young man named Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rura ...Show more
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Electrifying, playful, ambitious, brilliant - a Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time 'It's difficult to think of another novel that is at once so sweepingly ambitious and so intricately patterned, delivering t ...Show more