The Human Stain by Philip Roth
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Cole ...Show more
The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning mystery and a searing portrait of power, jealousy and desire from one of Ireland's most exciting new voices. An extraordinary debut with huge bestseller potential. Power.Jealousy.Desire.Twenty-five years ago, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl and her charismatic teacher disappeared without trace. ...Show more
The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems- crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock's stunning autobiographical novel begins in the '90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. The narrator, a recent college graduat ...Show more
Humiliation by Paulina Flores; Megan McDowell (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pride and disgrace. Nostalgia and revenge. Tenderness and seduction. From the dusty backstreets of Santiago and the sun-baked alleyways of impoverished fishing villages to the dark stairwells of urban apartment blocks, Paulina Flores paints an intimate picture of a world in which the shadow of humili ...Show more
Night Sleep Death the Stars by Joyce Carol Oates
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in st ...Show more
The Accidental by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph'A beguiling page-turner... To read The Accidental is to ...Show more
Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Extremely funny, touching and wonderfully refreshing on women and sexual desire' Marian Keyes 'As filthy as it is funny, you won't be able to put it down' Dolly Alderton Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend: Violet's life is nothing like she thought it wou ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris. 'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Bring Up the Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wolf Hall Ser.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. With this historic win for 'Bring Up the Bodies', Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for 'Wolf H ...Show more
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven' ...Show more
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych ...Show more