Before the Coffee Gets Cold (#1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* Winner of New Zealand's Fiction Book of the Year 2023 A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour. Everywhere, the birds, but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree, and we're staying, and you need to leave and ...Show more
Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubled past in this taut and compelling novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of An Island. In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the police. The remains of ...Show more
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. I ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more
The Mark by Frida Isberg (translated by Larissa Kyzer)
$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
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A timeless, heart-wrenching story about love in the face of indoctrination and tragedy - perfect for fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Lovely Bones, and Life After Life. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his ide ...Show more
The Morningside by Tea Obreht
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to The Morningside. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place she was born and spent her early years; nor doe ...Show more
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catc ...Show more
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the wor ...Show more
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As foot and mouth disease spreads across the hills of Cumbria, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke, Steve Elliman and William Herne, two neighbouring farmers, join forces to reverse their fortunes by rustling livestock from the south. With the struggles of the land never far a ...Show more
I'm New Here by Ian Russell-Hsieh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Taiwanese-British photographer Sean flies to Taipei to seek oblivion. Lost in the neon heat of his parents' homeland, though, all he finds is alienation. He spends his days sleeping feverishly in a bleak hotel bedroom, and his nights alternating between c ...Show more