Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two ...Show more
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest wh ...Show more
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Surely his masterpiece...Intelligent, terrifying and comic...Amis has tackled the biggest questions with imagination and intelligence, and the ultimate strength of this masterly novel is that he knows, and shows, that although there is no answer to the questions Auschwitz poses, we must never stop aski ...Show more
BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Published as Beartown in USA
In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But it is all put in jeopardy by a sin ...Show more
The Wide World by Pierre Lemaitre; Frank Wynne (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Literature with conviction; a furious talent' L'Obs The first volume of THE GLORIOUS YEARS series, translated by Frank Wynne Beirut, 1948. The Pelletier family returns... The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturin ...Show more
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer, and has been for as long as he can remember. It is the start of the twentieth century and the world is changing at a rapid place. Adrift following the loss of th ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words o ...Show more
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius —his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only ...Show more
When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, this "moving account of the depth of ordinary lives" (Library Journal, starred review) tells of a young Tasmanian girl and a Danish sailor in their search for meaning and whose brief encounter leaves a lasting impact on both.Isla is a lonely girl who ...Show more
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In one of the most striking opening scenes ever written, a bizarre ballooning accident and a chance meeting give birth to an obsession so powerful that an ordinary man is driven to the brink of madness and murder by another's delusions. Ian McEwan brings us an unforgettable story--dark, gripping, and br ...Show more
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more