Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist. Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss f ...Show more
The Rome Zoo by Pascal Janovjak; Stephanie Smee (translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A love affair, a rare animal and a secret plot - The Rome Zoo is a powerful and darkly funny novel set in the lush gardens of the Villa Borghese.Rome, too, wants the sound of roaring as evening falls . . . The Rome Zoo- a place borne of fantasy and driven by a nation's aspirations. It has witnessed - an ...Show more
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Lit ...Show more
What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation. 'I definitely want to visit this library. I feel kinder after this book' 5***** - Reader review What are you l ...Show more
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim.
The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection. For fans of The Guest Cat, Sweet Bean Paste and Before the Coffee Gets Cold Following a devas ...Show more
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel by Olivier Guez
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures, written as an action-packed historical biography For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated th ...Show more
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic - a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the twenty-ninth state of ...Show more
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin; Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman -- a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author. It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach gun ...Show more
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
With an introduction by Sunday Times bestselling author Victoria Hislop 'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .' Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countrys ...Show more
Mina's Matchbox: A tale of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan from the International Booker Prize nominated author by Yoko Ogawa
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its ...Show more