The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai by Barbara Lazar
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained i ...Show more
The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A 21st-century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. Set in London, Paris, Capri and cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture, it works at the intersection between the real and the imagined. Its territory is you.
The Praise Singer by Mary Renault
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Athens, Pythagoras... "an exciting living image of the Ancient World on (a) grand scale" New York Times
The Princess and the Prick by Anita Lehmann
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Princess and the Prick is a feminist humour and gift book for adults highlighting the sexism that has exists in children's classics. 'I hate this book. It makes me look like a right prick.' Prince Charming 'A real wake-up call.' Sleeping Beauty Think Ladybird for Adults or Enid Blyton spoofs; T ...Show more
The Prize by Kim E. Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'Is that what you want to do? Peer into my soul and capture my flaws, for all to see?' As World War II draws to a close, Australian society is still deeply conservative. Homosexuality is illegal and the scourge of Modernism is infecting Australian art. When William Dobell paints a portrait of lover and ...Show more
The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Once, Theodora was little more than a slave, the daughter of a bear-keeper, running barefoot through the streets of Constantinople. Now she is Theou doron, 'the Gift of God', Empress of Byzantine Rome and the most powerful woman in the world. In Stella Duffy's compelling new novel, the beguiling and ext ...Show more
The Quarry: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut's devastating 1995 novel on guilt and the pursuit of justiceGive yourself up. Whatever you've done. They'll find you. In the end.A man with no name staggers down a lonely stretch of road that cuts through the simmering veld of rural South Africa. He is exhausted and hung ...Show more
The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration Trilogy - comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Doorand The Ghost Road- is the heart-rending story of the last two years of the First World War seen through the eyes of army psychologist William Rivers and damaged soldier Billy Prior. As Rivers struggles with th ...Show more
The Restless Girls (PB) by Jessie Burton
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
For her twelve daughters, Queen Laurelia 's death in a motor car accident is a disaster beyond losing a mother. Their father, King Alberto, cannot bear the idea of the princesses ever being in danger and decides his daughters must be kept safe at all costs. Those costs include their lessons, their poss ...Show more
The Retribution (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan #7) by Val McDermid
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries Ser.
Clinical psychologist Tony Hill has had a good run. He and police detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their careers, and whose evil surpasses all others: Jacko Vance, ex-celebrity and ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going Black women, soon to be an HBO TV series. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve ...Show more