A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Around you the world is swirling - you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water. In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles fr ...Show more
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession. London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment - ...Show more
Heads You Win by Jeffrey Archer
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This program is read by acclaimed English actor Richard Armitage. With a final twist that will shock even his most ardent listeners, Heads You Win is #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel. Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordi ...Show more
The Messenger by Markus Zusak
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Meet Ed Kennedy - cab driving prodigy, pathetic card player and useless at sex. He lives in the suburbs, shares coffee with his dog, the Doorman, and he's in nervous-love with Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence - until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the firs ...Show more
Salt on My Skin by Benoîte Groult; Mo Teitelbaum (Translator); Fay Weldon (Foreword by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Salt on My Skin is widely regarded as Groult's most pioneering, best-loved book. This highly-charged novel follows the passionate relationship between mismatched lovers: a Parisian intellectual and a Breton fisherman, brought together by lust. Through love-letters and exotic encounters around the world ...Show more
Maddox by Chris Abrahams
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
After a stint as a music venue proprietor, Geoff Maddox is getting on with his life: managing his complex domestic situation; visiting the local shopping mall; and socialising with the regulars at the Stella Maris Hotel. This routine is disrupted by a fateful encounter with a young dancer, Amber, and th ...Show more
Wedding Puzzle by Sallie Muirden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the morning of her wedding, 24-year-old Beth Shaw drives down the peninsula to the Portsea Hotel. She is uneasy and confused because she has just learnt something devastating about her fiancé, Jordan, that completely changes her view of him. As Beth's old schoolmates and her relatives arrive for the ...Show more
Brigantia (#3 Vindolanda) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vindolanda Ser.
From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set in Roman Britain. AD 100: BRITANNIA. THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. Flavius Ferox is the hardbitten centurion charged with keeping the peace on Britannia's frontier with the barbarian tribes of the north. ...Show more
My Life As a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal. Once I'd been Daddy's favourite. Before something terrible happened.Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What's more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go outside the fam ...Show more
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson; Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and ...Show more
Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy
The astonishing new work of imaginative fiction from master storyteller and futurist, Neal Stephenson, author of Reamde, Seveneves and Snow Crash Richard "Dodge" Forthrast, the billionaire founder and chairman of video game company Corporation 9592, was last seen in Neal's Stephenson's 2011 novel Reamde ...Show more
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid, a story originally published a few years b ...Show more