Shallows by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr an ...Show more
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 South: Picador Classic by Colm Toibin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has ...Show more
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
A Light in the Dark by Allee Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Iris doesn't remember the first time she met Nina. But she remembers the first time she paid attention to her. It was when he did. The first year of high school brought Iris into a type of privilege she'd never felt part of. But then she found her place. The magic of performing in school musicals and t ...Show more
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befall one family "Sola pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistib ...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
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, Billy Collins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America. Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with ma ...Show more
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
He asked the water to lift him, to carry him, to avenge him. He made his muscles shape his fury, made every stroke declare his hate. And the water obeyed; the water would give him his revenge. No one could beat him, no one came close...His whole life, Danny Kelly's only wanted one thing: to win Olympic ...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
Emerald City and Other Stories by Jennifer Egan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Visit From the Goon Squad. These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, ar ...Show more