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
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
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for FictionSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION- A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war.Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her ...Show more
The Coast Road: 'A perfect book club read' Sunday Times by Alan Murrin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers ... A stonkingly good novel. Just read it' SARAH WINMAN, bestselling author of Still Life 'It will no doubt be a bestseller' GILLIAN ANDERSON, GRAZIA It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colet ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Kairos: Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 by Jenny Erpenbeck
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize. An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck has created an unforgettably compelling masterpiece with Kairos. The story of a romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s: the passionate yet dif ...Show more
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshamsbury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister's wedding and seduce a woman with money. Will it be the French ...Show more
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Butte, Montana, October 1891, and a hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker of the town, but also a doper, a drink ...Show more
Parade by Rachel Cusk
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked. In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect. Midway through his life, an artist b ...Show more
The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped co ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick by Ann Patchett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Dive into Tom Lake this Christmas - the breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett * THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 * * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK * * A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *'Filled with th ...Show more