Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 9 ...Show more
Astray by Emma Donoghue
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito. A sequence of fourt ...Show more
At the Jerusalem by Paul Bailey
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'A very funny book, but never jeering, full of pity, but unsentimentally harsh with the tragedy of old age which institutional kindness cannot cushion' Financial Times. Following the death from leukaemia of her daughter, Celia, Mrs Gadny goes to live with her sullen stepson Henry. But she finds little ...Show more
Atalanta: In a world of heroes, meet Greek mythology s fiercest heroine by Jennifer Saint
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA (UK, Sunday Times, April 2023) ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and ARIADNE (UK, Sunday Times, April 2021).'Brilliantly evocative' Women & Home | 'A spirited retelling' Times | 'Beautiful and ...Show more
Australian Love Stories (Short Stories) by Cate Kennedy
$28.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
There are imaginary lovers, unattainable lovers, star-crossed lovers and predestined lovers. There is straight love, same sex love and some very curious love. And Love's attendants - cupid, lust, obsession, and betrayal - dance through this volume that contributes to the growing tradition of Australian ...Show more
Autumn by Ali Smith
$19.99 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Autumn 2016 - Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation ...Show more
Away by Amy Bloom
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Moll Flanders in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way-and find her daughter-in the hip, harsh 1920s.On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered ...Show more
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non-Fict ...Show more
Bark by Lorrie Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the eve ...Show more
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'One of the greatest American writers' Independent From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize---winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain," comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests. In the late seventeenth ce ...Show more
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
$22.99 AUD
$29.99 (23% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are stil ...Show more