The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel following an American woman on the run in the blazing heat of Bangkok, from 'a modern Graham Greene' (Sunday Times) Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, sh ...Show more
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man who would become her second husband, and Natasha's stepfather. While she was still a child, Nat ...Show more
The Tunnel by A.b. Yehoshua; Stuart Schoffman (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father--an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project Until recently, Zvi Luria was a he ...Show more
A Burning by Megha MAJUMDAR
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent bec ...Show more
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish by Patrik Svensson
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
'I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.' The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably little ...Show more
Sisters by Daisy Johnson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The electrifying new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under. 'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller whose tension ratchets up and up to an ending of extraordinary lyricism and virtuosity' Observer. Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September. Desperate f ...Show more
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
$40.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's indelible influence.
Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplor ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again."-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' "20 most antici ...Show more
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A truly gifted writer' Sebastian Barry 'Pure gold' Emma Donoghue 'Remarkable. It will haunt readers' Chigozie Obioma WHAT MAKES A HOME A HOME? TELL ME A STORY I CAN DREAM ON . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is already gone. Lucy and Sam, twelve and eleven, are suddenly alone and on the run. With their f ...Show more
Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'It wasn't the life I'd ever imagined for myself, but I know now that we seldom ever get what we've imagined, and that this life is less about achieving than it is about adjusting. We're not the waves that pound against the earth until it breaks down to our wants. We're the rivers, that bend and give am ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more