Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her pers ...Show more
Well by Catherine Chanter
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
What if you might have committed a shocking act of violence? What if that act of violence was the murder of your own grandchild? It hasn't rained in Britain for three years. Except at The Well, Ruth and Mark's rural property, their haven from the pressures of the city. But their lush garden paradise has ...Show more
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
James: "Adam is a debate champion caught up in his verbal dexterity. His psychologist parents are treating Darren, whose actions degrade into anger. A zig-zagging narrative reflects Adam’s attempts to piece together traumatic events buried in his adolescence. With wit and sincerity, ambiguity resolves i ...Show more
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet
The Story of a New Name, the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story where My Brilliant Friend left off.Lila has recently married and made her entree into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighbourhood that she so ...Show more
Late in the Day: The classic Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of Free Love by Tessa Hadley
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead. In the wake of thi ...Show more
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
Transit (Outline trilogy #2) by Rachel Cusk
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront asp ...Show more
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 . . . A glorious novel, meditative and special' Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in the final stages of a terminal illness. She ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more
The Complete Western Stories by Elmore Leonard
$40.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1950, fresh out of college and keen to make his name as a writer, Elmore Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one, which would give him a better chance to be published while he learned to write. In choosing between crime and Westerns, the latter had an irresistible pull - Leonard loved m ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more