The Mark by Frida Isberg
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the near future, in Reykjavik, in a world like our own, society is divided about the controversial Empathy Test, which measures an individual’s capacity for compassion and identifies anti-social behaviour in citizens. Two thirds of the country, including public servants and politicians, have undergon ...Show more
Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A riveting story of redemption and retribution in a unique wartime setting by the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Girl from the Channel Islands. 'An unforgettable tale of friendship, love, courage and survival. I loved every word of this fantastically engrossing novel. Jenny Lecoat is an a ...Show more
Music Stories by EVERYMANS LIBRARY; Wesley Stace (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and Maya Angelou. Wesley Stace's attractive medley embraces musical genres from Virginia Woolf's 'A String Qua ...Show more
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
Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent ... when I think of all those little bodies suspended between earth and sky, it makes me smile to remind myself that for some of them, their first flight begin ...Show more
Birds of a Feather: Would you open your heart to fate? by Rhianna King
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A funny, utterly charming debut novel about forbidden romance, second chances and the upsides of spontaneity. For fans of Clare Fletcher, Jessica Dettman and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Beth doesn't feel like she belongs in her rambunctious, bohemian family. Apart from the special relationship ...Show more
The Little Clothes by Deborah Callaghan
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When you are heading towards 40 and people start to notice you a little bit less, what do you do with your new powers of invisibility? Audrey Mendes is a clever lawyer but has never made partner. Her weeks are filled with long hours in the office, visits to her ageing parents, trivia nights at the local ...Show more
The Sunbird by Sara Haddad
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can’t bear to put them in the ground. In June of 1948, as a six-year-old girl, she was expelled with her family from their village in Palestine. Now she carries the weight of that expulsion w ...Show more
Max by Avi Duckor-Jones
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
I want to let her know that choosing something is the entire problem. How do you choose something without feeling the undeniable loss of everything you rejected?Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with questions abo ...Show more
Big Time by Jordan Prosser
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Big Time is set in a not-too-distant future Australia, where the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy - a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy, nationalism trumps all, and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention. The novel opens as Julian Ferryman, ...Show more
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife is a warm, life-affirming debut about a zany case of mistaken identity that allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family. 'Would you mind terribly, old boy, if I borrowed the rest of your life? I promise I'll take excellent care of it.' Frederick F ...Show more
Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly by Joanna Glen
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Costa-shortlisted author of THE OTHER HALF OF AUGUSTA HOPE and ALL MY MOTHERS The story of two people who have no idea how to fall in love... On the tiny island of Rokesby, Addie helps her mother run a women's retreat. Dreaming daily of escape, she consoles herself by swimming in the ocean th ...Show more