The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might ...Show more
The Need by Helen Phillips
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Speculative fiction of the highest calibre: one woman fights to retain her sense of self amidst the chaos of work, motherhood and alternative universes. Share this Molly is home on her own with two small children: one-year-old B, and four-year-old Viv. Her husband is away for two weeks and she is runnin ...Show more
The Master of Petersburg by J.m. Coetzee
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
History is coming to an end; the old account-books will soon be thrown into the fire; in this dead time between old and new, all things are permitted. He does not believe his answer particularly, does not disbelieve it. In the fall of 1869, Dostoevsky is summoned from Berlin to St Petersburg by the sud ...Show more
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving ...Show more
The Convert by Stefan Hertmans
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set at the time of the Crusades and based on historical events, The Convert is the story of a strong-willed young woman who sacrifices everything in the name of love. When author Stefan Hertmans learns that Monieux, the small Provencal village in which he lives, was the scene of a pogrom a thousand year ...Show more
A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Before the bushfires--before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills--the ridges are thick with gums. After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars. And the lost people: in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city, on the ...Show more
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Buckling under the weight of being a single parent--her Tu ...Show more
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fourteen-year-old convict Tom Clay lives in a shepherd's hut in the bush, protecting his master's sheep from wild dogs. When a vicious fellow shepherd returns to ensure there are no witnesses to his crimes, the bush-crafty Tom and his hapless mate Rowdy face a life-and-death battle to survive. ’I’ve al ...Show more
Everything You Ever Wanted by Anon; Luiza Sauma
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
You wake up, you go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after expensive drink until you're so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up in bed with y ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more
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