Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates (Editor); TBC Staff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. During its three-thousand-year his ...Show more
Dreamer by Charles Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fearless work of historical fiction that digs deep into the life of one of history's best-known figures of the Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr is a political visionary, human rights activist, preacher, scholar and martyr. Chaym Smith is his dark mirror, a violent, cynical criminal with a m ...Show more
Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1941. Eighteen-year-old Ruby leaves behind the family farm, her serious mother and roguish father, and heads for Adelaide. After a brief courtship, she enters into a hasty marriage with a soldier about to go to war - who returns a changed man. In this absorbing novel, Anna Goldsworthy recreates th ...Show more
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'Will leave you shaken to your very core' - Cosmopolitan NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, Economist, BBC Radio 4's Open Book, Time Magazine, Elle Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Marie Claire, Kirkus Reviews, Washington Post , Chicago Tribune, Book Rio ...Show more
Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely frangible bodies, carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive. Laura may be burned out. Her hands have be ...Show more
In Moonland by Miles Allinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A parent's love for a child, you probably know this yourself, it's pretty bottomless. It goes down into the guts of the world. But a child's love for a parent is different. It goes up. It's more ethereal. It's not quite present on the earth.' In present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together t ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
The Man in the Shed: Selected Stories by Lloyd Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed ...Show more
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost...". The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre ...Show more
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class.
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal ...Show more
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the w ...Show more