The Scope of Permissibility by Zeynab Gamieldien
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
How do you balance desire, ambition and expectations? Feeling alienated from wider society, Sara, Abida and Naeem gravitate towards their university’s Muslim Students’ Association. Within its austere confines, Sara watches Naeem. Over time, the pair commence a furtive relationship outside of the gaze of ...Show more
The Trackers by Charles Frazier
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to creat ...Show more
Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the visionary author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Joan comes an epic novel tracing the construction of a colossal statue - and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake
Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Hernán Diaz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more
Valentino by Natalia Ginzburg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
So there is no one to whom I can speak the words that most need to be spoken, about the events which most closely concern our family and what has happened to us; I have to keep them bottled up inside me and there are times when they threaten to choke me. Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents ...Show more
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel wh ...Show more
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
''Immaculately constructed, acidly observed and gripping from start to finish, A Burning is a brilliant debut.'' The Guardian A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchase ...Show more
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote form a captivating tribute to the Christmas season Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South o ...Show more
A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories by Sean O'Beirne
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of old and new Australia - and into a very frightening future. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild ...Show more
A Jealous Tide by Anna MacDonald
$8.75 AUD
$35.00 (75% off)
Category: Literary Fiction
A restless woman upends her world, abandoning her domestic inertia to seek refuge in a foreign hemisphere. Purposefully unsettled on the labyrinthine streets of London, she assembles a new routine amid the afterglow of a story from a century earlier. A traumatised widow, doubly bereaved, threw herself i ...Show more
A Lonely Man by Chris Power
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'A remarkable debut; an accomplished and intricately plotted.'-JON McGREGOR'A Lonely Man is a delicate snare of a novel.'-BRANDON TAYLOR'A thrilling, unnerving novel. a page-turner with exacting syntax and emotional heft.'-CATHERINE LACEY'Impressively deft. A Lonely Man is a tense and taut work.'-BENJAM ...Show more
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Shortlisted - Booker Prize 2021 From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality. It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpect ...Show more