The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The breathtaking new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Hamnet. Set at the heart of the treacherous political world of the Italian Renaissance, this is the masterful story of a young woman's battle for her very survival, written with all the drama and verve that made HAMNET an international best ...Show more
Jack of Hearts QX11594: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Jackie Huggins, Ngaire Jarro
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military History
‘It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go beyond what we knew from our Mother’s stories of him? The past, present and future need to be spoken about and shared.’ — Jackie HugginsBorn an only child in No ...Show more
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting TimesFrom the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying.In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy ...Show more
Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro; Frances Riddle (Translator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, El ...Show more
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (translated by Charlotte Barslund)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial pa ...Show more
The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Penny Rush has problems. Freshly divorced from her mobile knife-sharpener husband, she has returned home to Santa Barbara to deal with her grandfather, who is being moved into a retirement home by his cruel second wife. Her grandmother, meanwhile, has been found in possession of a sinister sounding wea ...Show more
Black Butterflies by PRISCILLA MORRIS
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This extraordinarily affecting debut novel captures life inside the Siege of Sarajevo. Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves. When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and a teacher, sees that she must send her fam ...Show more
Pyre by Perumal Murugan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Pyre glows with as much power as [One Part Woman] did, and adds immeasurable value to contemporary Indian literature'-The HinduSaroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan's village, harboring a dangerous secret: their marriage is an inter-caste one, likely to upset ...Show more
The Trees by Percival Everett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of ...Show more
Madukka the River Serpent (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Julie Janson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services.It took her thirty hours to complete online.Now, she has set up her own private investigation service: Yanakirri Investigative Services – Confidentiality Guaranteed.When environmental activist, Thommo, suddenly goes missin ...Show more
Prophet Song (H/B) by Paul Lynch
$42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of Ireland. Things are falling apart ...Show more
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day – a wanderer, a healer – an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to ...Show more