Property: A Collection by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver 'Genius' Stylist'Phenomenal' Observer'Brilliant' The TimesIn her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age's most enduring obsessions: property. A woman creates a deeply personal wedding present for he ...Show more
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with breathtaking fury and intimacy. Adapted for the stage by A ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
Napoleon's Beekeeper by José Luis de Juan; Elizabeth Bryer (Translator)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORKER BOOK CRITIC'S FAVORITE FICTION OF THE YEAR"Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging...an extraordinary new collection..."--The New Yorker "E ...Show more
The Abstainer by Ian Mcguire
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Truly terrific' Richard Ford 'Dickens for the twenty-first century' Roddy Doyle 'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday Times A man hanging on by a thread. A city about to snap. From the acclaimed author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and obsession. Manchester, 1867 Two men, haunted by th ...Show more
Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernières
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this entertaining collection of stories, Louis de Bernieres introduces us to a man who turns his life around through developing his hobby of collecting cat-food tin labels. We also meet a traveller who embarks on a confusing love affair in Colombia, a dolphin romance and, in 'Gunter Weber's Confessi ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner; Ben Lerner (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors. Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the care of their young sons. When Elizabeth, an old friend from Dexter's university days, turns up with her much younger sister, Vicki, and her ...Show more
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