Before the War by Fay Weldon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Spoils of War
Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to ...Show more
Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
28.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
?AyÅe Kulin is a clever writer. She draws the reader into the story of the life and loves of a Turkish family in wartime, and by the time the reader realizes that she has also cranked up the tension with a rescue plot, it is too late to put the book down unfinished. For aficionados of wartime novels, a ...Show more
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Dirty, drunk, unloved, and unloving, Hector Loursat has been a bitter recluse for eighteen long years--ever since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child to run off with another man. Once a successful lawyer, Loursat now guzzles burgundy and buries himself in books, taking little notice of his te ...Show more
The Beekeeper's Secret by Josephine Moon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Maria knew about guilt. It was a stubborn, pervasive and toxic emotion, and incredibly difficult to shake. Especially if really, deep down, you didn't think you deserved to let it go.'..Maria Lindsey is content. She spends her solitary days tending her bees and creating delicious honey products to fund ...Show more
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house, dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laur ...Show more
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The suspense will have you turning the pages long into the night.' - Good Reading, 4 stars..Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long-lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect t ...Show more
Hinterland by Caroline Brothers
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two young boys cross a river in the middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their lives depend on this journey. With nothing but the clothes on their backs, Aryan and his little brother Kabir travel by truck, boat, train, bus and on foot across a Europe they desperately hope will offer them ...Show more
The Game of Chess and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens
Stefan Zweig's last and most famous story, 'The Game of Chess' was written in exile in Brazil and explores its author's anxieties about the situation in Europe following the rise of the Nazi regime. The tale is presented here in a brand-new translation, along with three of the master storyteller's most ...Show more
Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 A twenty-four hour whirlwind of death and life. In the depths of a winter's night, the heart of Simon Limbeau is resting, readying itself for the day to come. In a few hours' time, just before six, his alarm will go off and he will venture into the ...Show more
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [...] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final mismatch...a 'Trinidad' being created that did not take my Trinidad away (my Trinidad takes itself away, in reality, over time)...th ...Show more
A Man of Genius by Janet Todd
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Man of Genius portrays a psychological journey from safety into obsession and secrecy. It mirrors a physical passage from flamboyant Regency England through a Europe conquered by Napoleon.;Ann, a successful writer of cheap Gothic novels, becomes obsessed with Robert James, regarded by many, including ...Show more
Newcomers by Michael Biggins
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In sparse prose, Lojze Kovacic chronicles the refugee experience, drawing extensively on the specificities of his own flight from Switzerland for Slovakia, but ultimately transcending the prosaic to meditate on the universal experience of unsettlement. This, the first volume of a three-part semi-autobio ...Show more