Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Set in hardscrabble farming country around the show jumping circuit that flourished in Australia prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land. When Noah Childs meets Roley Nancarrow ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
#1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times ...Show more
The North Water by Ian McGuire
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the ...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 Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
$27.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Julie Otsuka's "The Buddha in the Attic", the follow-up to "When the Emperor Was Divine" was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012. Between the first and second world wars a group of young ...Show more
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
$19.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
'One day there is life ...and then, suddenly, it happens there is death'. So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In "The Book of Memory" the perspective ...Show more
The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
"Genius, friend, rival: this is the story of four pairs of artists whose intense relationships spurred and shaped their art. Matisse and Picasso. Manet and Degas. Bacon and Freud. De Kooning and Pollock. Eight of the most significant modern artists; four pairs linked by friendship and a shared spirit of ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, B ...Show more
Lullaby by Leila Slimani
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic P ...Show more
Doxology by Nell Zink
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Category: fiction a-z
Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell Zink Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scr ...Show more
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021, a thrilling and heartbreaking story of love, family, survival and betrayal. 'A gorgeous, gripping read' Kamila Shamsie 'I'm blown away by it' Tessa Hadley 'The stuff of miracles' Bryan Washington Mehar, a young bride in rural Punjab, is trying to discover the identi ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen. It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof tha ...Show more