A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The Sunday Times bestseller Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life and the fate of his country forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find them ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
This title presents sixteen masterpieces of short fiction from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, ...Show more
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men ...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
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 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
Beatrix & Fred by Emily Spurr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A bizarre and beautiful tale of an unlikely friendship; Beatrix and Fred will be the warmest and weirdest book you'll read all year. Beatrix is a loner. She has a love-hate relationship with her one friend, Ray, a hate-hate relationship with everyone else in her office and a genuine attachment to a stu ...Show more
Bird Life: a novel by Anna Smaill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A big-hearted, compassionate novel about three generations of women preparing for a living wake - from award-winning poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. When she decides she wants a living wake - a party to bring her family and communit ...Show more
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the bestselling, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Memorial and Lot, a novel about two young men who grew up together, fell away from each other, and then collide again after a crisis... Growing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. T ...Show more