Leonora by Elena Poniatowska
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rules of her social class, against her parents and against the hegemony ...Show more
Sweet Nothing: Stories by Richard Lange
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Every life is uncertain. Every choice is a danger. Set on the dark side of Los Angeles, this is a masterful collection of edge-of-your-seat tales: a prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes. A father and son set out to rescue a young couple trapped during a wildfire after they ...Show more
The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
The irresistible Brandons, their friends, and their servants are full of youthful nonsense and middle-aged folly. People will fall in love with the wrong person, and all are determined to misunderstand each other. Like Barbara Pym, E. F. Benson, and Jane Austen herself, Angela Thirkell has created a sma ...Show more
Summer Half: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School. Little does Colin imagine that he will count among his pupils the demon in human ...Show more
August Folly: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home. But the numerous and impossibly glamorous Dean family - exquisite Rachel, her capable husband and six of their nine brilliant children ...Show more
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This never-before-translated masterpiece--by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party--is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides ...Show more
Masterpieces of the English Short Novel: Nine Complete Short Novels by Kenneth H. Brown
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
These nine novels are "the best of the best"--great writing by some of the most brilliant literary minds of the 18th and 19th centuries. Samuel Johnson's biography of Richard Savage raises the life of a scoundrel to the level of great art; George Eliot profoundly influenced Henry James with her horror ...Show more
Trio by Geraldine Wooller
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Celia, Marcia, and Mickey meet and become friends in London. Searching for work and success in the theatre, they end up sharing a flat and a deep bond of friendship. Set in Italy, London and Australia from the sixties to current times, Trio is the story of their complex personalities and relationships, ...Show more
A War of Flowers by Jane Thynne
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
August, 1938. Paris is a city living on its nerves and the threat of war hangs heavy as a distant thunderstorm on a summer's day. British actress, Clara Vine, is in Paris to film her latest movie, having left Berlin under a cloud. Joseph Goebbels has become increasingly suspicious that Clara has been mi ...Show more
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorJoe O'Brien, a forty-four-year-old police officer from Charlestown, Massachusetts, is a devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer. Joe has bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, invo ...Show more
The Museum of Extraordinary Things (PB) by Alice Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the beloved, bestselling author of The Dovekeepers, a mesmerizing new novel about the electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century. Coney Island: Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the impresario behind The M ...Show more
The Four Books by Yan Lianke; Translated by Carlos Rojas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Yan Lianke's most powerful novel yet. Reminiscent of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Darkness at Noon, Yan's mythical tale portrays the grotesque persecution during the Great Leap Forward. In the ninety-ninth district of a labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician un ...Show more