The Queens Of Sarmiento Park by Camila Sosa Villada
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Auntie Encarna's house is the queerest boarding house in the world. For Camila, who grew up as a boy in a small town in Argentina, but now lives as a woman, it is home. The queens around her are her family: Auntie Encarna, who is 178 years old; Maria, who can't speak, and has feathers growing out of her ...Show more
The Rain Heron (The Age Book of the Year 2021) by Robbie Arnott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission. As their lives entw ...Show more
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia a ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<b>The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville.</b> In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing ...Show more
The Round House (PB) by Louise Erdrich
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Winner of the 2012 National Book Award, Louise Erdrich's masterful novel is now available in a limited Olive Edition. One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and r ...Show more
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser.
When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget -- until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she is determined to prov ...Show more
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'A book full of marvels' New Yorker The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She wants to end it all. But then she finds herself in the hands of a Black faith community, and the fabled hea ...Show more
The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels by William Golding
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Lose yourself in ancient civilizations evoked by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Charlotte Higgins.
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
It is 2019 in America, All Souls Day, when the borderline that separates the living from the dead is most porous. Recently released from a decades-long prison sentence, Tookie - a headstrong and deeply wronged Ojibwe woman with a chequered past - must make a life for herself in a changed, charged world. ...Show more
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismember ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hire ...Show more