Here We Are by Graham Swift
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill-advised affair with a susceptible student. When he retreats to his dau ...Show more
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Stuck between a boss who doesn't seem to see her, a family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested), and ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
Salvation City by Sigrid Nunez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend comes a moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a pandemic virus as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny.His family's sole survivor after a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of peop ...Show more
The Communist's Daughter by Aroa Moreno Duran; Katie Whittemore (translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
‘A fascinating story of personal and political uprootedness. . . written with the delicacy that touches the reader’s heart’ Manuel VilasWinner of the Premio Ojo CríticoKatia has spent her childhood in the eastern shadow of the Berlin Wall. For her father, refugee of the civil war in Spain, the communist ...Show more
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It takes courage to survive in a world full of trouble... In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of ...Show more
How to be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia by Georgia Richter, Deborah Hunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn look at the business of becoming an author. In a friendly, informative and practical way they share all you need to know about inspiration and research, preparing to submit to a publisher, creating an author brand, legal, ethical and moral considerations, pitching and ef ...Show more
Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers by Helen Vines
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her death in 1974. Was her writing the truth, or false, or somewhere in between? What did it mean when she described her father as ‘evil’ and ‘perverted’ in her first published novel The Pea Pi ...Show more
A New England Affair (#3 Eliot Quartet series) by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
"The latest, immensely moving novel of lost love and missed moments from Steven Carroll, one of Australia's greatest writers, multi-award winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award 'Why do some nights feel as though they were always waiting ...Show more
Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays. In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow to say yes to everything that comes his way. By fate ...Show more
Travelling Companions by Antoni Jach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Antoni Jach takes one of the oldest of storytelling forms, the traveller who shares with us the tales of other travellers, and makes new magic from it. Travelling Companions is a joy from start to finish.’ — John Connolly, author of he: A Novel and the Charlie Parker series Solitary travellers and a c ...Show more