The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic accid ...Show more
Gerard Hardy's Misfortune by Dorothy Johnston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
According to local legend, the historic Royal hotel in the Victorian coastal town of Queenscliff is haunted. Having served as both a mental asylum and a morgue in the early days it could hardly fail to be, but a bizarre murder in the hotel's basement puts a decidedly eerie spin on things. The victim is ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection by Alex Preston (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination, en ...Show more
Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas
$19.99 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Fiction
When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. While she spends her time with the other girls at the lake and the stables, a hand-pic ...Show more
Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A wonderful rediscovery. . . human, suspenseful, shot through with hard-earned wisdom' - Lee Child One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third Reich April 1945, the last days of the Nazi ...Show more
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yukio Mishima
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them ...Show more
Out: (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Natsuo Kirino
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young ...Show more
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yoko Ogawa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Series
Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbe ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague ...Show more
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent pa ...Show more
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the begi ...Show more