People Like Them by Samira Sedira
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime
'Disturbing and powerful - I loved it' - Leila Slimani, author of Lullaby 'Icy and chilling... In sharply drawn sentences, Sedira summons the beauty of a small French village, and the shocking acts of the people inside it' - Flynn Berry, author of the Reese Whitherspoon Book Club pick, Northern Spy You ...Show more
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2021. At Night All Blood is Black captures the tragedy of a young man's mind hurtling towards madness and tells the little-heard story of the Senegalese who fought for France on the Western Front during the First World War. Alfa Ndiaye and Mademba Diop are two ...Show more
The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Salpêtrière asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much more complicated - for these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives or strong-willed daughter ...Show more
Outrageous Horizon by Adrien Bosc; Frank Wynne (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two hundred and fifty members of a new society, floating, stranded at sea, heading for unknown lands, fleeing a Europe in flames.
Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan's Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and he is ins ...Show more
Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of contemporary fiction's most gifted sentence builders" Beejay Silcox, GuardianBehind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Métal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative painting - that art of tricksters and counterfeiters, where each knot in a plank of wood hides ...Show more
White Shadow by Roy Jacobsen
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The sequel to the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Unseen "A gifted writer, stylish, laconic and imaginative" Paul Owen, TLS No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, while the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new more terrible war a ...Show more
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Animalia tells the confronting and compelling story of a peasant family in south-west France as they develop their plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of two world wars, economic disasters, and the emergence of a brutal i ...Show more