The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature
For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. But when she dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His grief counsellor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library le ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award comes Lucy Treloar's new novel. Some things collapse slow, and cannot always be rebuilt, and even if a thing can be remade it will never be as it was. Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the fa ...Show more
Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A suspenseful, gothic novel. We were the Family, and Foxlowe was our home. There was me – my name is Green – and my little sister, Blue. There was October, who we called Toby, and Ellensia, Dylan, Liberty, Pet and Egg. There was Richard, of course, who was one of the Founders. And there was Freya. We w ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, "Children of the Revolution", earned him comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald and Naipaul, garnered ecstatic critical praise and won the "Guardian" First Book Award for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience in America. Now, he enriches the themes that defined his ...Show more
Paris Secret by Karen Swan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Not every door should be opened ...With stunning locations and page-turning tension, The Paris Secret is an intense and gripping tale from bestselling author Karen Swan. Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with dust and secrets: full of priceless artworks hidden away f ...Show more
The Photographer's Wife by Suzanne Joinson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious - and wildly eccentric - plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the 'little witness', eavesdrops underneath the ...Show more
The Memory Stones by Caroline Brothers
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Buenos Aires, 1976. Osvaldo Ferrero and his wife Yolanda escape the city's heat with their daughters, sensible Julieta and wilful Graciela, who is nineteen and madly in love. They will be the last days the family ever spends together. On their return to Buenos Aires, the Argentine military stages a cou ...Show more
Nicotine by Nell Zink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the much acclaimed author of MISLAID and THE WALLCREEPER, a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families — both the ones we're born into and the ones we create — a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home. Re ...Show more
The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'A person is defined by the secrets they keep.' Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of millions of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he ...Show more
Stolen Beauty: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
1900: Adele Bloch-Bauer-young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish-meets the modern painter Gustav Klimt in turn-of-the-century Vienna when sex, art, and anti-Semitism are just beginning to break through the facade of conventional society. Her intoxicating vulnerability and intensity fuel a love triangle t ...Show more