Adeline by Norah Vincent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Adeline is a gorgeous reimagining of the historical events that brought Virginia Woolf to the riverbank, with a stunning dénouement worthy of its protagonist. An ambitious work in the tradition of Woolf herself, Adeline audaciously explores the interior consciousness of the most interior of authors from ...Show more
Novel Habits of Happiness (Isabel Dalhousie #10) by Alexander McCall Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels
Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her en ...Show more
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The international bestseller, translated from the German by Simon Pare. On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; or rather a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only ...Show more
The African Equation by Yasmina Khadra
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Khadra brings us deep into the hearts and minds of people living in unspeakable mental anguish."--Los Angeles Times "A skilled storyteller working at the height of his powers."--Times Literary Supplement "Like all the great storytellers of history, [Khadra] espouses the contradictions of his characters ...Show more
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, and architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of ...Show more
Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men, born on the same day, on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in their ruthless struggle to build a fortune. An unputdownable story, spanning sixty years, ...Show more
Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A temporary clerk, still on probation, Mr Johnson has been in Fada, Nigeria, for six months and is already much in debt. Undaunted, he entertains on the grandest scale, with drums and smuggled gin. Not only that, he intends to pay a small fortune for his wife ...First published in 1939, "Mister Johnson" ...Show more
The Secret Lives of the Four WivesA Novel by Lola Shoneyin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"I didn't just happen upon this room; I dreamed of the pale green walls before I arrived." Attempting to rise above the secrets of her past, Bolanle, a university graduate, marries Baba Segi, who promises her everything in exchange for agreeing to become his fourth wife. Thus she enters into a polyga ...Show more
The Margaret Thatcher School of Beauty by Marsha Mehran
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in Buenos Aires during the Falklands War, THE MARGARET THATCHER SCHOOL OF BEAUTY is the story of a group of displaced Iranian refugees living in a decaying Beaux Arts building in the city centre. The inhabitants of the building form an eclectic community: a sick ex-prisoner and his daughter, a promi ...Show more
Gone by Jennifer Mills
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
After prison, there can be no straight road home. A young man is released from a Sydney prison, his hands empty, his identity gone. He catches a southbound train out of town, then hitchhikes west. He hasn't been home for fifteen years. For days 'Frank' rides the highway through an unforgiving landscape, ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choos ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more