Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshamsbury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister's wedding and seduce a woman with money. Will it be the French ...Show more
The Work by Bri Lee
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The intersections between art, life, power and privilege are explored in this first work of fiction from the bestselling author of Eggshell Skull. Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying off. Pat is a scholarship boy desperate to establish himsel ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encou ...Show more
Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City
Mona is the eccentric Lady of Easley House, running a bed and breakfast to keep her inherited English manor afloat. Wilfred is Mona's 26-year-old adopted son who spends his weekends in London, looking for love in the gay bars of Soho while pining after his pen pal, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver. The current ...Show more
Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE DESTINATION READ OF 2024. Your paradise awaits ... 'A magical novel, so uplifting, heartwarming, funny . . . This feels as if it was written specifically to give comfort' MARIAN KEYES 'Sparkling and sophisticated ... reminded me of the pleasures to be had in reading' JESSIE BURTON Set sail for a tr ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
The Gentleman From Peru by Andre Aciman
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story from the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name. We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves ...Show more
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman ...Show more
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catc ...Show more