Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Roy Strang is engaged is a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, ...Show more
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"At the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation- she isn't Mary, she's a boy. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others also strive to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world."
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Arcadia Trust
A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and '90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning It's 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city's glamour and ene ...Show more
The Librarian by Salley Vickers
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip Pullman In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town ...Show more
The Survivors by Kate Furnivall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
*** THE TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'A thrilling rollercoaster of a read' Dinah Jefferies, author of The Sapphire Widow Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal. 'Directly I saw him, I knew he had to die.' Germany ...Show more
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. Kendall has failed a ...Show more
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
$19.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This young man's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he is unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for ma ...Show more
Evening in Paradise - More Stories by Lucia Berlin
$50.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times best ...Show more
After the Party by Cressida Connolly
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new ...Show more
The Relive Box and Other Stories by T. C. Boyle
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating socia ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a centu ...Show more
The Reluctant Spy by Holly Kerr Forsyth
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tall, tanned and blonde, Rachel Edmistone, forty-something mother of three, lives in sparkling, harbourside Sydney and is married to the perfect man – Adrian, who has the looks to match his piles of cash.Or so she thinks.Rachel is the powerhouse behind the star-studded Butterfly Ball, a fundraiser for h ...Show more