Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Reading Level: very good
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of thr ...Show more
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, determined and fearless. She's not even derailed when her parents drop a massive bombshell on her twenty-first birthday. But then she meets the charming but aimless Martin, and for the first time, Gilgi finds herself blown bewilderingly and dangero ...Show more
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction. 'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...' It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-o ...Show more
Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Tóibín, from the introductionDeath in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, ...Show more
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Panther S.
Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To his older brother, Robert, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to James Morison, his wife is the foundation on which his family rests and life withou ...Show more
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Cased Classics Ser.
In rural Norway, one evening after school, 11-year-old Siss and Unn strike up a deep and unusual bond. When the next day Unn sets off into the wintry woods in search of a mysterious frozen waterfall, known locally as the "ice palace," and does not return, a devastated Siss takes it upon herself to find ...Show more
The Silence by Don DeLillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic ...Show more
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each s ...Show more
I Wished by Dennis Cooper
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can't handle.' For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would alway ...Show more
The Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital by Joanna Nell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The heartwarming and hilarious new novel by the author of cherished bestsellers, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and raising money at the hospital for over fifty year ...Show more