The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Considered her greatest literary achievement, Marlen Haushofer's The Wall is the story of one quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human on Earth. Surmising her solitude to be the result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the terrifying wo ...Show more
The Travel Writer by Michael Wilding
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Liz Lambastier was a successful travel writer. Did she write one last, unpublished book before she died? Plant is hired to find out. It soon becomes evident he is not the only one looking. What could the missing manuscript contain? Memories of the past to haunt a few people? Revelations of sexual opport ...Show more
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Michael first met the Hanburys of Egypt Hill when he was a young student. He was intrigued and delighted by their bohemian lifestyle and bravado. Twelve years later, married with a young son, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his increasingly turbulent domestic sit ...Show more
Trust Exercise - A Novel by Susan Choi
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacherIn 1982 in a southern city, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongsi ...Show more
Person of Interest: A Novel - Choi by Susan Choi
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling story of a mad bomber, a suspect scientist, and paranoia in the age of terror from the author of Trust Exercise and My Education Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician near retirement age would seem the last person to attract the attention of FBI agents. Yet after a colleague becomes t ...Show more
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary; Jonathan Griffin; David Bellos (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Available again with a new introduction by David Bellos, the distinguished translator of Georges Perec and biographer of Romain Gary, "The Roots of Heaven" takes as its subject the deliberate and relentless hunting and killing of elephants for their ivory. Morel, a former dentist whose survival in a Naz ...Show more
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place, 2019 Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, 2019 Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2019 __________ 'Extraordinary' Guardian __________ Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that ...Show more
Wizard's First Rule: Book 1: The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Sword of Truth
Basis for the television seriesLegend of the Seeker, launching in Fall 2008! Millions of readers the world over have been held spellbound by this valiant tale vividly told.Now, enter Terry Goodkind's world, the world of the Sword of Truth.In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mys ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself ...Show more
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot G ...Show more