Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Set in Peru during the 1950s, "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meet ...Show more
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking ...Show more
The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
"One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$14.99 AUD
Category: classics
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor ...Show more
Septology by Jon Fosse
$44.95 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-fa ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$22.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever." Financial TimesGuatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which ...Show more
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
In this debut novel from acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go), post-war Japan serves as the haunting backdrop to a subtle story of memory, suicide, and psychological trauma. Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent su ...Show more
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph' A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling story ...Show more
The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk
$32.99 AUD
Category: young adult
The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient and attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of il ...Show more
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$26.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Marquez 2014
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. 'She looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be sure no one was following her.' Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Marquez 2014
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.' Fifty-one ...Show more