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
$32.99 AUD
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
The Sound by Sarah Drummond
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
The Sound is set in the 1820s, in the violent and lawless world just before the English established colonial law in Western Australia. It is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies, and st ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choos ...Show more
Black Rock White City: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love. During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan's cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent. For Jovan the mysterious words that must be cle ...Show more
All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan; Jessica Cohen (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
A chance encounter in New York brings two strangers together: Liat is an idealistic translation student, Hilmi a talented young painter. Together they explore the city, share fantasies, jokes and homemade meals, and fall in love. There is only one problem: Liat is from Israel, Hilmi from Palestine.Keepi ...Show more
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
"One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation." --Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, w ...Show more
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Anne EnrightBefore the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the p ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story.In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Franci ...Show more
Still Life with Teapot: On Zen, Writing and Creativity by Brigid Lowry
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
The good thing about being my age is that if you haven't grown up already, you don't have to. What do you do when you start talking to yourself on the bus? If you're the writer Brigid Lowry, you change tack and write a book about what it means to be an ageing woman in the 21st century In Still Life wi ...Show more
The Memory Stones by Caroline Brothers
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Buenos Aires, 1976. Osvaldo Ferrero and his wife Yolanda escape the city's heat with their daughters, sensible Julieta and wilful Graciela, who is nineteen and madly in love. They will be the last days the family ever spends together. On their return to Buenos Aires, the Argentine military stages a cou ...Show more
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a dazzling new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things. It takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborh ...Show more