Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'His most brilliant novel yet' Daily Telegraph Mike Engleby has a secret... This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an esteemed English university. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English educatio ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid sce ...Show more
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress ...Show more
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo; Jessica Sequeira (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garcia Marquez
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her pers ...Show more
The Master of Petersburg by J.m. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
History is coming to an end; the old account-books will soon be thrown into the fire; in this dead time between old and new, all things are permitted. He does not believe his answer particularly, does not disbelieve it. In the fall of 1869, Dostoevsky is summoned from Berlin to St Petersburg by the sud ...Show more
The Opposite of Success by Eleanor Elliott Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wickedly sharp and absurdly funny, The Opposite of Success introduces a sensational new voice to remind us that failure is always an option. All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that really too much to ask? Council employee Lorrie Hope has a great ...Show more
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MAGGIE O'FARRELL Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother's black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw... In this, her first novel, Elspeth Barker evokes the unrelenting chill of Calvinism and the Scottish climate; it's a w ...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
Dolly: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. The remoter parts of the English Fens are unruly, deserted and damp, even in the height of summer. In Iyot Lock stands a large, decaying house, belonging to ...Show more
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Sunday Times Novel of the YearLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeA magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit ...Show more
The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Don Tillman
The Rosie Result is the triumphant final instalment of the internationally bestselling series that began with The Rosie Project. ------ Don Tillman - scientist, husband, father, and world's greatest problem-solver - met his wife Rosie by inventing The Wife Project. But ten years on from marrying 'the ...Show more