Bathhouse and Other Tanka by Ishii Tatsuhiko
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being," writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic form of the tanka into its own innovative c ...Show more
Happy by Celina Baljeet Basra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'PLAYFUL AND PROFOUND . . . USING WRY HUMOUR TO DELIVER A DEAD SERIOUS MESSAGE' MELISSA FU 'A BONKERS STORY THAT READS LIKE A FINE TEN-COURSE MEAL' GARY SHTEYNGART A young cinephile leaves his rural village in India with big dreams, only to find himself trapped in menial jobs and forced to work off a ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
Opposed Positions by Gwendoline Riley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
At thirty, Aislinn Kelly is an occasional novelist with a near-morbid attunement to the motives of those around her. Isolated, restless and stuck, she decamps to America - a default recourse - this time to an attic room in Indianapolis, to attempt once again the definitive act of self-salvage. There are ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, ...Show more
Sick Notes by Riley Gwendoline
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A brilliant coming-of-age novel about drinking, depression and the pain of first love from the critically-acclaimed winner of the Betty Trask and Somerset Maugham Awards. Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna. Surrounded by e ...Show more
The Actor by Chris MacDonald
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime
The glamour of Hollywood and the dark secrets that lie behind it- a brilliantly written and irresistibly suspenseful novel, from an author who knows all about the world he's writing about At long last, Adam Sealey has an Oscar within reach. Working with his controversial former mentor, Jonathan, he's g ...Show more
The Book of Mirrors by E.O. Chirovici
$19.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
MEMORIES CAN BE DEADLYA brutal murderIt's been thirty years since Professor Weider was found dead in his stately home. With little evidence to convict a suspect, the case has never been solved.A buried mysteryNow, a partial manuscript has been discovered that reveals three people were at the house that ...Show more
The Goodbye Cat: The uplifting tale of wise cats and their humans by the global bestselling author of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES by Hiro Arikawa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A new Japanese bestseller- seven fabulous warm, wise and sarcastic cats support the complicated lives of their humans BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their o ...Show more
The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The page-turning and immersive new novel from New York Times bestseller Mary Beth Keane, author of Radio 2 Summer Bookclub pick Ask Again, Yes. Malcolm Gephardt, gregarious bartender at the Half Moon in Upstate New York, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss retires, Malcolm seizes his chan ...Show more
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
$36.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of r ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more