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The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team ...Show more
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neigh ...Show more
A Treacherous Country (Winner 2020 Australian Vogel's Literary Award) by K. M. Kruimink
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's de ...Show more
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
$33.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
'I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.' So begins the exquisitely written new novel from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings Ana is a rebellious young woman, a gifted writer with a curious, brilliant mind, who writes secret narratives about the ...Show more
Their Brilliant Careers: The Lives of Sixteen Remarkable Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award Absurd, original and highly addictive . . . In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret source o ...Show more
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Winner of the Campiello Prize. A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator. "I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The word 'mama' stuck in my throat like a toad. And, nowadays, I really have no idea wh ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
RICHARD GLOVER REVIEWS: ''I love writers who break their own mould with each book. Charlotte’s last book, The Natural Way of Things, was darkly compelling; this has more sunshine plus wonderfully flawed characters in whom you may find reflections of yourself.'' People went on about death bringing frien ...Show more
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent). Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and front ...Show more
The Heart of Henry Quantum by Pepper Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
"Henry Quantum has several thoughts going through his head at any given time, so it's no surprise when he forgets something very important : specifically, a Christmas gift for his wife, Margaret, which he realises on the morning of December 23rd. Henry sets off that day in search of the perfect present ...Show more
Death of a She Devil by Fay Weldon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Everyone's talking about feminism and gender. But to make up your own mind, you need to discover the She Devil for yourself. In 1983, Fay Weldon published her most famous book, The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Written in the teeth of the feminist revolution, it is a wickedly funny revenge fantasy abou ...Show more
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Are So Much More Than Just Words by Tom Mole
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. Books are f ...Show more
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths | Reading Level: very good
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...Show more
