Vernon Subutex 2 by Virginie Despentes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes Chau ...Show more
The Consolation of Maps by Thomas Bourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kenji Tanabe finds maps easier to read than people. At the elite Tokyo gallery where he works, he sells antique maps by selling the stories that he sees within their traces: their contribution to progress, their dramatic illustrations, their exquisite compasses. But no compass or cartography can guide h ...Show more
The Last of Our Kind by Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A word of advice: don't start reading this page-turner at bedtime, or you'll be staying up all night.' Psychologies, France Werner Zilch was adopted as an infant, and knows nothing of his biological family. But when, in 1970s New York, he meets the family of Rebecca, the woman he has fallen in love wi ...Show more
The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway by Rhys Thomas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
This is no ordinary love story and Sam is no typical hero...but he is a hero. Charming, quirky, and absolutely bursting with heart, this is the perfect book club read for fans ofThe Rosie Project, A Man Called Ove, and Eleanor Oliphant. Sam Holloway has survived the worst that life can throw at you. B ...Show more
How Do You Like Me Now? by Holly Bourne
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE TIMES BESTSELLER 'It is so good! It is so honest about being a woman and all the things that are expected of us ... I enjoyed it very much.' MARIAN KEYES AS DISCUSSED ON BBC WOMAN'S HOUR AND THE SARA COX SHOW ***** 'Turning thirty is like playing musical chairs. The music stops, and everyone just ma ...Show more
The Outsider by Stephen King
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and finger ...Show more
The Upside of Over by J. D. Barrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A scathingly brilliant new novel from TV scriptwriter J.D. Barrett, author of THE SECRET RECIPE FOR SECOND CHANCES, that explores sex, love and all the stuff in-between. What happens when one of the country's most popular identities goes from reading the news to being the news? Olivia Law had always bee ...Show more
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From one missing body, through a viral epidemic, to a new world order - this is an epic and addictive debut from an exciting new voice. 'I caught my breath, even from across the room. All I wanted to do was look into her eyes. It was as if she knew the reason I was there and that I was looking for her.' ...Show more
Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This collection of short stories is about the difficult, serious business of love and hate. Here are characters united by one thing: they are all creatures of strong desire. Love in a Blue Time charts the growth of a generation, from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of respon ...Show more
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.' Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds, in an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection on their time together he analyses the joys and agonies of trying to make a life with anothe ...Show more
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog. That woman is Faye, who is now on her way to Europe to promote the book sh ...Show more
Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Oceania 1879. A family of settlers from New Zealand are the sole inhabitants of a remote volcanic island. For two years they have struggled with the harsh reality of trying to make this unforgiving place a paradise they can call their own. At last, a ship appears. The six Pacific Islanders on board have ...Show more