The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe?'Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 1 ...Show more
The Apocrypha by Bryan Keon-Cohen
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Young boys and girls are sexually abused by Father O'Halloran at a parish church choir in Melbourne. A secret self-help society, The Apocrypha, is organised by victims Ashley and Keith at their school. The Society members engage in a bizarre Competition while Secretary Keith records the offending priest ...Show more
The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The complete collection, first published in 1952 with exquisite illustrations by the celebrated artist Philippe Jullian, republished in a beautiful giftable edition. For nearly 150 years, the classic fairy stories of Oscar Wilde have been cherished by readers of all ages. Rediscover all nine of the stor ...Show more
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' - Telegraph 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divel ...Show more
The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers, featuring the country's best-loved detective. In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of b ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner. George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world The 'best sh ...Show more
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil warSixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four bel ...Show more
The Morning Star: the new novel from the author of My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2021"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive." --Dwight Garner, New York TimesThe international bestseller from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't u ...Show more
The New Life by Tom Crewe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A very fine new writer' Kate Atkinson 'Electrifying' Anne Enright Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife ...Show more
Swann in Love by Marcel Proust (translated by Lucy Raitz)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A stunning deluxe edition of the stand-alone novella from Proust's masterpiece--an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy--delivers the most memorable reading experience A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English--and since ...Show more
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.' Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at the cent ...Show more