Drown by Junot Díaz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Junot Diaz Made His Remarkable Debut As A Writer With This Collection Of Stories That Move From The Barrios Of The Dominican Republic To The Struggling Urban Communities Of New Jersey. The Stories Are All Unflinching And Strong And Diaz'S Prose Crackles With An Electric Sense Of Discovery. In 'Ysrael', ...Show more
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Novel Award From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms and the little moments that make up the life of an autoworker in a small working-class town. This is almost a love story. But i ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
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Category: Literary Ficton
Gilgameshis the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
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Category: Literary Ficton
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wante ...Show more
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Conceived while his larger-than-life father, Bear Bavinsky, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, the young Pinch learns that his father''s genius trumps everything else. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy--first as a painter, and then as his father''s biographer, before s ...Show more
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
A New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2017 "Nowhere is Winterson's] faith in the transporting power of storytelling more on display than in her new book, Christmas Days . . . dark, otherworldly and (trademark Winterson) wickedly funny . . . a] holiday treasure . . . to be pulled out on a ...Show more
Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: near fine
A brilliant young doctor is dead … and someone has to take the blame. Former refugee David Tran becomes the Golden Boy of Australian medical research and invents a drug that could transform immunology. Eight volunteers are recruited for the first human trial, a crucial step on the path to global fame fo ...Show more
Literary Wonderlands by Laura Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers and to examine concepts, highlight key issues and consider their personal beliefs about the society, natural surroundings and experience of being of which they are a pa ...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
Greenwood by Michael Christie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud A ...Show more
The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham, Vivian Pham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Growing up can feel like a death sentence Life in a troubled neighbourhood demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn’t really know. Watching the world from her bedroom window, she exists only in second-hand romance novels and falls for any fast-food employee who happens to spare her a glance. Everyth ...Show more
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Step back into the enchanting world of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. This extraordinary sequel takes readers to Japan, where time, destiny and love collide to electrifying effect'A Japan that never was, a future lost, ghosts that are not dead, random numbers, clairvoyant samurai ... not even a part ...Show more