The Empress Lover by Linda Jaivin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine...' Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund Backhouse is a man of many parts. A polyglot scholar. An effete homosexual. A genius of perversity, a forger, arms salesman, occasional spy and fantasist. Also, if he is to be believed, th ...Show more
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes ...Show more
My Friends by Hisham Matar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Return comes an astonishing new novel about friendship, set between London and Libya in the 1980s and the present Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh- two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of re ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from a working-class background to be at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. Her masterful line of questioning in the courtroom has netted Tessa win after win, f ...Show more
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An unforgettable novel about the enduring power of connection in a world of increasing distance, from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'I just adore Sigrid Nunez' Paula Hawkins 'Nunez is unparalleled when it comes to tapping into the immediacy of grief, love, and exhau ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
Absolution by Alice McDermott
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Absolution is one of the finest contemporary novels I've read. It is a moral masterpiece.'ANN PATCHETT'Damning and dazzling, this is the story of a Vietnam we never got in history class' OPRAH DAILY'A masterful American writer'MAIL ON SUNDAYYou have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men ...Show more