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
All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Glorious. Unforgettable' Melissa Harrison'Funny, lyrical, deft and devastating' Amy Sackville'A distinct and poetic new voice' Clare PollardI lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew u ...Show more
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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Category: Literary Fiction
"Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s ...Show more
Ancestry - A Novel by Simon Mawer
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Category: Literary Fiction
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... N ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
With a new introduction by Professor John Sutherland, this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century.Animal Farm is a moral animal fable written to highlight the weakness of humankind, and satirize the rule of Stalin, whose rise through revolution ended in totalitaria ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinan and an Israeli. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i ...Show more
As You Were by Elaine Feeney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret.No-one knows it- not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie.But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past ...Show more