A Portrait in Shadow by Nicole Jarvis
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Enter a sumptuous world of art and magic in 17th-century Florence as Artemisia Gentileschi fights to make her mark as a painter and exact her revenge - perfect for fans of Alix E. Harrow, Elena Ferrante and Susanna Clarke. When Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking a haven for her art, she f ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
A Time Outside this Time by Amitava Kumar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A blistering novel about fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction When Satya, a professor and writer, attends a prestigious artist retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won’t let up: the president rages online; a dangerous virus envelopes the globe; and the twe ...Show more
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Set in the frozen north of Canada in 1972, this is a novel about childhood trauma, painful histories that need reckoning with and the moments in life when we can change for the better'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne TylerNorthern Ontari ...Show more
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling. Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them. This story starts with a ...Show more
A Treacherous Country (Winner 2020 Australian Vogel's Literary Award) by K. M. Kruimink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Heart-rending and heart-warming ...for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.' Jim Crace Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her ha ...Show more
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for Palestine Book Award Nahr has been confined to the Cube- nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The wor ...Show more
Against the Loveless World: Shortlisted for Palestine Book Award by Susan Abulhawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The world outside calls Nahr a terrorist, an ...Show more
All The Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful ...Show more