March by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tel ...Show more
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: General Adult
Outside, the rain continues unceasing; silver sheets sluicing down, the trees and shrubs soaking and bedraggled, the earth sodden, puddles overflowing, torrents coursing onwards, as the darkness slowly softens with the dawn. Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogs the anxietie ...Show more
The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson
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Category: Literary Ficton
After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives. To protect her daughter, Isobel must take drastic action. THE GLAD SHOUT is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and textu ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: near fine
The Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the arrival of the boy Simon, and later on, of his Maori fo ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America (PB) by Peter Carey
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Category: Literary Ficton
When the young French aristocrat Olivier is sent to the New World, apparently to study its prisons but in reality to avoid another revolution, Parrot is sent with him. The son of an English printer, Parrot wanted to be an artist but has ended up as a servant. They make an unlikely pair - but as their ad ...Show more
Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Witi Ihimaera
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
David Munro has everything a man could want - a beautiful wife, two adoring daughters, a top academic position and a circle of devoted friends. But he also has another life, lived mainly at night and frequently in what he comes to know as 'The Gardens of Spain', the places where gay and bisexual men mee ...Show more
Summer House With Swimming Pool by Herman Koch; Sam Garrett (Translator)
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Category: Literary Ficton
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD A doctor to the rich and famous goes to extreme lengths to protect his daughter in this dark and addictive novel from the author of the million-copy bestseller The Dinner. Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous. When his most famous patient, ...Show more
I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
The kaleidoscopic new novel from Wally Lamb: the number one New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone. Every Monday evening, Felix Funicello sets up a new film at an old vaudeville theatre in preparation for his weekly movie club. But one night, as this sixty-year-old scholar prepares the p ...Show more
The Blind Astronomer's Daughter by John Pipkin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer Willi ...Show more
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015. By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction, especially Hanya Yanigahara, Jonathan Franzen and Anthony Doerr. "Unputdownable is an overused word, but at their best these stories are c ...Show more
The Eye of the Reindeer by Eva Weaver
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Category: Literary Ficton
THE ALCHEMIST meets THE SNOW CHILD in this beautiful odyssey through the snowy landscapes of northern Finland. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Ritva is sent away to Seili - a remote island to the south of Finland. A former leper colony, Seili is now home to 'hopeless cases' - women who have been ...Show more