The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse t ...Show more
His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Man Booker Prize FinalistA New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday TimesA brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question th ...Show more
Modern Times by Cathy Sweeney
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
There once was ... a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox. a man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter. a couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to be reminded of what love is. a world where you ...Show more
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster. Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels totall ...Show more
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curi ...Show more
Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015 Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lyc ens 2015 Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of fem ...Show more
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its ...Show more
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
$22.99 AUD
Category: General 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 Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy anddark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or who ...Show more
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer 'A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY' New York Times A deeply personal novel of identi ...Show more
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As they look to the stars, what are they missing back home? The best of Helen Kane exists in space. If she doesn't go back up, she'll be consigned to a lesser version of herself on a planet that has also seen better days. Helen is an experienced astronaut with a NASA position and a struggling grown-up d ...Show more
The Silk House by Kayte Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Weaving. Healing. Haunting. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret... Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year ...Show more