China Dream by Ma Jian
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A poetic and unflinching fable about tyranny, guilt, and the erasure of history, by the banned Chinese writer hailed as 'China's Solzhenitsyn'. In seven dream-like episodes, Ma Jian charts the psychological disintegration of a Chinese provincial leader who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past. F ...Show more
The Waiter by Matias Faldbakken
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is...one of the most purely entertaining novels I've read in years. This book is a meal you won't want to finish." --J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest In the tradition of the mod ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pre-read / Used. Very Good condition. Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man?s discovery, in Vietnam ...Show more
The Man Who Wanted to Be Happy by Laurent Gounelle
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the end of a holiday in Bali, Julian, an unhappy schoolteacher decides to meet a renowned local healer, Samtyang. Through daily sessions at the wise man's house, he begins to identify the source of his unhappiness as a series of simple questions and answers point to his own limiting beliefs and fears ...Show more
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each s ...Show more
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction. 'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...' It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-o ...Show more
The Wolf (The UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 1) by Leo Carew
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Under the Northern Sky Ser.
In Leo Carew's thrilling and savagely visceral debut epic fantasy, The Wolf, violence and death come to the land under the Northern Sky when two fierce races break their age-old fragile peace and begin an all-out war. Beyond the Black River, among the forests and mountains of the north, lives an anc ...Show more
Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Crackling with zeitgeisty energy... Sam Byers's dizzying second novel comes over like an episode of Black Mirror as scripted by a "woke" Martin Amis.' Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in England, some time in the recent future. Brexit has happened and is real. Fear and loathing are on the rise. Gr ...Show more
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Kh ...Show more
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The "incandescent" (New York Times Book Review) coming-of-age-story and debut novel by the acclaimed Booker Prize finalist Romesh Gunesekera Triton loved living in Mister Salgado's house. It was the biggest house he had ever seen--filled with floors to sweep and silver to polish and meals to cook an ...Show more
The Drover's Wives by O'Neill , Ryan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new book from the winner of the 2017 Prime Ministers Literary award for fiction. Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is an Australian classic that has sparked interpretations on the page, on canvas and on the stage. But it has never been so thoroughly, or hilariously, reimagined as by Ry ...Show more